The phrase "a indigent" is not correct in written English.
The correct form is "an indigent" because "indigent" begins with a vowel sound.
Example: "The charity organization aims to provide support for an indigent population in the city."
Alternatives: "a destitute person" or "a needy individual."
When the end came, he left behind, in the city of 32,000 souls, a huge family, an indigent widow and a library of compositions which would ordain him as the greatest musical artist who ever lived.
The government also is not required to provide a lawyer to an indigent immigrant who has a case to make before a judge.
On the afternoon I visited the house, which is now a museum, an indigent woman was sprawled out on the curb across the street, breast-feeding a baby.
As a Las Vegas statute puts it, "an indigent person is a person whom a reasonable ordinary person would believe to be entitled to apply for or receive" public assistance.
Since a 1963 Supreme Court decision, Gideon v. Wainwright, courts have acknowledged that an indigent defendant in a serious criminal case has a constitutional right to a lawyer.
A14 The court ruled that a state may not impose even a suspended sentence on an indigent defendant for whom it has not appointed a lawyer.
The startling findings show that merely providing an indigent defendant a lawyer, as the Constitution requires in felony cases, is not enough to secure justice.
He was especially concerned about the potential unfairness of providing a lawyer to an indigent parent if the opposing parent does not have one.
Or if no longer a heavy father, an artistic practice becomes an indigent distant relative, reduced to parading for tourists in the bazaar: who'd join him?
The Supreme Court properly ruled this week that the legal standard federal courts should use in deciding if an indigent defendant in a death penalty case can get a new lawyer is whether replacing appointed counsel serves "the interests of justice".
