NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1180

SENATE BILL 675

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO THE PAYMENT OF COUNSEL IN REVIEWS OF THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF CRIMINAL TRIALS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  The last sentence of G.S. 15-219 is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"The court shall fix the compensation to be paid such counsel in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 15-5, which compensation shall be paid by the State as provided in said Section."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be effective only in the event that G.S. 15-5 is rewritten by Senate Bill 335 to provide for payment of counsel for indigent defendants by the State of North Carolina, in which case this Act shall be effective upon its ratification, or upon the ratification of Senate Bill 335, whichever occurs later.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of June, 1963.