Opinion ID: 1228432
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Order for witness fees.

Text: After this appeal was taken, trial court entered an ex parte order on county attorney's application, directing payment of $100 to a medical expert and a day's pay and mileage to Melvin Kruse for his attendance at the second day of trial at the State's request. Defendants assign as prejudicial error not the order, but failure to disclose to defense counsel a claimed pre-existing agreement to pay Kruse. This information, it is asserted, should have been available to defendants when Kruse was under cross-examination. No authority is cited by defendants. Further, there is nothing in the record before us, including the post-trial order, which indicates there was such an agreement between the State and Kruse. In the absence of such evidence, we need not consider this complaint.