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COMMONWEALTH EX REL. HANCOCK v. DAVIS

521 S.W.2d 823 (1975)

COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky ex rel. Ed W. HANCOCK, Attorney-General, Appellant, v. Drexell DAVIS, Treasurer, et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

April 11, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ed W. Hancock, Atty. Gen., Kenneth A. Howe, Jr., William W. Pollard, Asst. Attys. Gen., Frankfort, for appellant.

Charles Wickliffe, Executive Dept. for Finance and Administration, Frankfort, for appellees Davis, Scent and Dept. of Finance.

Michael E. Caudill, Bowling Green, for appellees Lowe and Commonwealth's Attys. Ass'n.

Frank Trusty, II, Covington, for appellee O'Hara.

PALMORE, Justice.

The Attorney-General of the Commonwealth appeals from a judgment upholding the validity of Chapter 318, Acts of 1974 (House Bill 459), pertaining to the duties and compensation of Commonwealth's Attorneys in circuit court districts containing cities of the first or second class or urban county governments. We affirm.

Briefly, the act in question provides that in such districts the Commonwealth's Attorney shall be a full-time prosecutor and...

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