Johnson v. Whiteside County

Citations

• 110 Ill. 22

Syllabus

<p>1. County—attorney’s fee—where attorney defends a criminal by appointment of court. An attorney at law appointed by the court to defend one on a trial of an indictment, who does defend, is not entitled to recover of the county in which the trial was had, any compensation for his services. An attorney takes his license with its burdens, among which is, to defend persons charged with crime when required by the court.</p> <p>2. Criminal law—chity of court to assign counsel to prisoner. Section 422 of the Criminal Code, making it the duty of the court to assign counsel to a person charged with crime when he is unable to employ one, conferred no new power, nor did it impose any additional duty. It but formulated the common law already in force.</p>