State v. Jackson

This case presents the issue of whether the trial judge’s denial of petitioner’s motion for reimbursement of indigent appeal expenses operated in a constitutionally impermissible manner to totally preclude her from “any means of getting adequate [appellate] review on the merits”. Draper v. Washington, 372 U.S. 487, 498, 9 L. Ed. 2d 899, 83 S. Ct. 774 (1963).

On October 16, 1975, petitioner was convicted of two counts of robbery and one count of attempted robbery in a nonjury trial, and was sentenced to three concurrent terms of not more than 20 years each. Subsequently, petitioner filed notice…