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Impoverished persons may sue in formâ pauperis.
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251. Where any person so arrested and imprisoned as aforesaid by virtue of any writ of capias shall be disabled by poverty from making defence to any such information, it shall be competent for such person to petition the court on affidavit verifying such disability; and the court, on being satisfied of the truth of the facts alleged in such affidavit, may assign counsel and attorney to such person, and the counsel and attorney so assigned are hereby required to act for such person without fee.
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