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Texas: Late Affidavit of Indigence Satisfies Fee Payment Requirement; Case Dismissed on Remand

On May 26, 2006 the Supreme Court of Texas held that a state court of appeals erred when it dismissed a prisoner's appeal after he filed an affidavit of indigence in response to the court's instructing him to pay filing fees.

Lawrence Higgins, a Texas state prisoner, appealed the dismissal ...

 

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