Mr. Chief Justice Warren delivered the opinion of the Court. The question presented in this case is whether a State may constitutionally require that an indigent defendant in a criminal case pay a filing fee before permitting him to file a motion for leave to appeal in one of its courts. After a trial in Ohio in 1953, the petitioner was convicted of burglary and sentenced to life imprisonmen…
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