Indigent Defense

Famous quotes containing the words indigent and/or defense:

    Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    From a bed in this hotel Seargent S. Prentiss arose in the middle of the night and made a speech in defense of a bedbug that had bitten him. It was heard by a mock jury and judge, and the bedbug was formally acquitted.
    —Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)