Sec. 54-151. Cost of transcript and printing on appeal. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 54-151. Cost of transcript and printing on appeal. In any appeal in a criminal action, where it appears to the trial court that the accused is without funds with which to defray the costs of securing a transcript of the evidence, or printing the briefs and the appendices to the briefs, such costs shall be defrayed by the state.

      (1949 Rev., S. 8850; 1957, P.A. 17; 1967, P.A. 421, S. 1.)

      History: 1967 act deleted language restricting section to appeals to the supreme court.

      Cited. 139 C. 401. Cited. 154 C. 631, 636. Cited. 155 C. 719.

      Finding of fact after comprehensive examination of facts and circumstances is required where indigency is controverted. 5 Conn. Cir. Ct. 313.