Case Name: Commonwealth v. Bottoms
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1911-01-24
Citations: 141 Ky. 730
Docket Number: 
Parties: Commonwealth v. Bottoms.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 141
Pages: 730–731

Head Matter:
Commonwealth v. Bottoms.
(Decided January 24, 1911).
Appeal from Mercer Circuit Court.
Taxed Attorney’s Fee&emdash;"Criminal Cases&emdash;To Whom Paid.&emdash;The only provision for a taxed 'attorney’s fee in a criminal case is section 354 Criminal Code, and under it the fee is for the benefit of the attorney general, and by section 117-a, Ky. St., now goes into the State Treasury.
JAS. BREATHITT, Attorney General; T. B. McGregor, Assistant Attorney General, and C. E. RANKIN, Commonwealth Attorney, for appellant.
J. F. VANARSDADL and BEN LEE HARDIN, for appellee.

Opinion:
Opinion of the Court by
Chief Justice Hobson—
On motion for taxed attorney's fee by city attorney.
These prosecutions were instituted against appéllee for an infraction of a city ordinance and-judgment having been entered for him the Commonwealth appealed to this court where the judgment was affirmed. The clerk taxed an attorney's fee and it was paid into the State treasury. Of this the city by its attorney complains.
The only provision for a taxed attorney's fee in a criminal case is section 354, Criminal Code, and under it the fee is for the benefit of the attorney general, and by section 117a, Kentucky Statutes, now goes into the State treasury. There being no other provision of law for a taxed attorney's fee herein the city cannot complain. (See Commonwealth v. Bottoms, 140 Ky., 212.)