Slattery v. Hendershot

Citations

• 267 Pa. 402
• 110 A. 147
• 1920 Pa. LEXIS 877

Syllabus

<p>Public officers — District attorney — Compensation—Salaried officers — Counties with over 150,000 inhabitants — Constitutional law —Act of May 19, 1887, P. L. 188.</p> <p>1. In counties containing more than one hundred and fifty-thousand inhabitants, the district attorney is a salaried officer, whose salary is compensation for all services rendered by him in his official capacity.</p> <p>2. In so far as the Act of May 19, 1887, P. L. 138, provides compensation for the district attorney in addition to his salary for the performance of his official duties, wherever rendered, it is in conflict with the constitutional limitation upon what he is to receive.</p> <p>3. A district attorney of a county with over one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants is not entitled to recover compensation in addition to his salary, for services rendered in an appeal by the Commonwealth in a criminal case.</p>