The Criminal Law Journal of India Journal September 1922

The salary of the Public Defender for the higher Courts in Los Angeles is paid by the county for the lower Courts by the city ; the salary of the New York Defender is fixed and paid from volutary contributions ; the 'salaries of the Connecticut County Defenders are fixed by the Judges of the Superior Court on the basis of services rendered. [...] He declares : "I have no hesitation in saying that in the interests of justice economy and a square> dealing between the defendant and public the office of Public Defender will be found beneficial in all the more populous counties of the state." The Committee regrets that in spite of the uniform approval of the service of the Public Defenders such service has been so little adopted in the Unite [...] The District Attorney had an expert handwriting witness come to his office and examine the receipt upon which the whole case depended and the handwriting expert after examining the signature gave it as his opinion that it was not in the handwriting of the defendant who was charged with the larceny That wasn't all ; the District Attorney submitted to the expert the genuine writing of the complai [...] The primary function of the indictment is manfestly that of complying with the just command of the Constitution that it inform the accused of the nature and cause of the accusation against him. [...] So far as the state had prepared its case at thetime of the return of the indictment so far as the accused had prepared his defence at the time of pleading the names of the witnesses with the above mentioned indication of their testimony and the copies of the documentary evidence could be contained in a schedule annexed to the indictment and pleas respectively.