Harris v. Southeastern Printers Supply Co.

The statute (Code, § 6-1004), provides that an affidavit in forma pauperis made by the plaintiff in error as a relief against the payment of costs in this court should state that the plaintiff in error “because of poverty, is unable to pay the costs.” An affidavit which states that the plaintiff in error “is unable from his poverty, at the present time, to pay the costs,” is to the same effect as the affidavit required by law. The affidavit required by law that the plaintiff in error “is” unable to pay the costs, is an affidavit that the plaintiff in error is now, at the present time, unable…