In a general sense an “in-digent” person is one who Is'needy and poor, or one who has not suflicient property to fur-nlsh him a living nor any one able to support him and to whom he is entitled to look for support. See Storrs Agricultural School v. Whitney, 54 Conn. 342, 8 Atl. 141; Juneau County v. wood County, 109 wis. 330, 85 N. W. 387; City of Lynchburg v. Slaughter, 75 Va. 62. The laws of some of the states dis-tinguish between “panpers” and “indigent persons," the latter heing persons who have no property or source of Income sufficient for their support aside from their own labor, though self-supporting when able to work ahd in employment. See In re Hybart, 119 N. C. 359, 25 S. E. 963; People v. Schoharie County, 121 N. Y. 345, 24 N. E. 830; Rev. St Mo. 1899, { 4894 (Am. SL 1906, p. 2616
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
