NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 954
SENATE BILL 552

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES MAY ORDER COSTS OF TRANSCRIPTS IN NONCAPITAL FELONY CASES TO BE PAID BY THE COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 15-181 is amended by adding, following the second paragraph thereof, a new paragraph to read as follows:
"Where it shall appear to the presiding judge that a defendant who has been convicted of a felony other than a capital felony, or having been tried upon a bill of indictment charging a noncapital felony, has been convicted of a lesser offense, and has prayed an appeal to the Supreme Court from sentence imposed, is unable to defray the cost of perfecting his appeal on account of his poverty, the judge may, in his discretion, and upon finding that the defendant is indigent, order the county in which the alleged crime was committed to pay the necessary cost of obtaining a transcript and proceedings for the use of the defendant, and the necessary cost of preparing the requisite copies of the record and briefs in the Supreme Court."
Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of June, 1963.