Higgins v. Randall County Sheriff's Office

in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice HECHT, Justice BRISTER, and Justice MEDINA joined.

Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 20.1 governs the procedures to establish an appellant’s indigence. The rule enumerates eleven items of financial information that the affidavit of indigence must contain, Tex.R.App. P. 20.1(b), and also provides that if no contest to the affidavit is filed, “no hearing will be conducted, the affidavit’s allegations will be deemed true, and the party will be allowed to proceed without advance payment of costs,” Tex.R.App. P. 20.1(f). We must decide whether the appeal of…