STATE v. GREEN

Nos. 55044, 55251.

470 S.W.2d 571 (1971)

STATE of Missouri, Appellant, v. John Charles GREEN, Respondent. STATE of Missouri, Appellant, v. William COLEMAN, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

September 13, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., John C. Craft, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for appellant.

Eugene K. Buckley, Evans & Dixon, St. Louis, for Bar Ass'n of Metropolitan St. Louis, amicus curiae.

Henry S. Stolar, St. Louis, for Missouri Bar, amicus curiae.

Harold S. Goodman, Maryland Heights, for Lawyers Ass'n of St. Louis, amicus curiae.

James W. Benjamin, Kansas City, for Kansas City Bar Ass'n, amicus curiae.

Guy Magruder, Jr., Kansas City, for Lawyers Ass'n of Kansas City, amicus curiae.

Robert W. Van Dillen, City Counselor, James J. Gallagher, Associate City Counselor, St. Louis, for City of St. Louis, amicus curiae.

Willard B. Bunch, John J. Cosgrove, Legal Aid and Defender Society of Greater Kansas City, Kansas City, amicus curiae.


DONNELLY, Judge.

These cases involve the question whether counsel appointed to represent defendant indigents charged with crime are entitled to receive compensation for services and reimbursement for out of pocket expenses. In the Green case the charge was felonious escape and in the Coleman case the charge was first degree murder. In each instance the applications for fees and reimbursement were allowed by the trial court, the court in the Green case directing that...

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