United States ex rel. Bowe v. Skeen

WATKINS, District Judge.

The petitioners are nine prisoners who have been convicted and sentenced by state courts and are now serving terms in the state penitentiary.. They filed a petition in this court to proceed in forma pauperis. Counsel were appointed to represent them, but because they did not choose to verify their status as paupers, they were required to pay the clerk’s filing fee of $5 and the marshal’s costs of serving the respondents. They paid the clerk’s fee but did not pay the marshal’s costs, and the respondents have therefore not been served with process. Since the filing of…