WILL, District Judge.
In his handwritten complaint, plaintiff, an inmate of the Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet, alleges that in October, 1960, at his arraignment in the Circuit Court of DuPage County on a complaint charging burglary, and despite his sworn plea of indigence, defendant Circuit Judge Mel Abrahamson refused to appoint the Public Defender, defendant Edwin L. Douglas, to represent plaintiff except upon the condition that some payment be made to Douglas...
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