Mississippi Supreme Court, 1881

Dismukes v. Board of Supervisors

Mississippi Supreme Court · Decided April 15, 1881 · Campbell

58 Miss. 612

Cases that cite this one

8 later published cases cite this decision.

Mallard v. United States Dist. Court for Southern Dist. of Iowa (Supreme Court of the United States 1989)
State Ex Rel. Scott v. Roper (Mo. 1985)
Board of Supervisors of George County v. Bailey (Miss. 1970)
Weiner v. Fulton County (Ga. Ct. App. 1966)
Melvin Leroy Tyler v. Warden Lark Norton Y. Beilenson v. Treasurer of the United States (8th Cir. 1973)
United States v. Edward J. Dillon, Petition of Manley B. Strayer (9th Cir. 1965)
Lamar County v. Tally (Miss. 1917)
Pardee v. Salt Lake County (Utah 1911)

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Opinion of the Court

Campbell, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The counsel assigned by the court to a person indicted for a capital crime and unable to employ counsel is not entitled to charge for his services and recover their value from the county. The Boat’d of Supervisors could not lawfully allow such a demand. It is prohibited from appropriating the money that *614may come into the treasury of the county to any object not authorized by law, and there is no law authorizing an appropriation to this object.

Judgment affirmed.

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