13-3992. Expenses of maintenance of insane
defendant as county charge


When a defendant in a criminal action, any time prior to pronouncement of sentence,
is committed to the state hospital, the expenses of transporting him to and from the
hospital and of maintaining him while confined therein shall be a charge against the
county in which the indictment was found or information filed, but the county may recover
such expenses from the estate of the defendant or from a relative, town, city or county
required by law to provide for and maintain the defendant.