Monday, 30th November 1914: U.s. Court Is Asked To Review Frank Case, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 30th November 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.Attorney Alexander Makes Point That Georgia Court Erred on Federal Law(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. Leo M. Frank's application for a Review of his conviction in Georgia Courts for the…
Friday, 27th November 1914: “jury Was On Trial For Its Life When I Was Tried” – Frank, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 27th November 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Leo M. Frank, from his cell in the Fulton County Tower, Friday issued another statement to the public, in which he reiterated his innocence, declaring that only once had the question of…
Saturday, 28th November 1914: Frank’s Plea Goes To The Entire U. S. Bench, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 28th November 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.Supreme Court of U.S. Will Hear Motion for Writ on Monday. Leo M. Frank's Petition for a Writ of Error, denied by Justices Lamar and Holmes, of the United States Supreme Court,…
Sunday, 29th November 1914: Frank Motion Goes To Supreme Court Monday, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 29th November 1914,PAGE 7, COLUMN 4.Full Bench of U.S. Jurists Will Pass on Petition for Writ of Error(Special Dispatch to The Journal)WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 " Formal motion will be submitted in the Supreme Court when it meets…
0171 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: 32. Because the Court erred in declining to allow the witnessMiss Hall to testify that on the morning of April 36th, andbefore the murder was committed, Mr. Frank called her over thetelephone,…
0172 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: A. No sir.Q. With J. M. Gantt, the man who was bookkeeper and was turned off there?A. No sir, I never told him any such thing.Q. No such thing ever happened?A. No…
0173 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: everybody knows are incompetent.The Court: Well, I sustain your objection.Mr. Arnold: If the effort is made again, your Honor, I amgoing to move for a mistrial. No man can get a fair…
0174 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: sation with Mrs. Freeman and Miss Hall; this testimony was stronglydisputed by the solicitor. Lemmie Quinn's statement that he wasin Frank's office just before going into the rear, that wasof the greatest…
0175 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: The Court, over the objections of the defendant, on the groundsstated, permitted this testimony to go to the jury and in doingso erred.This was prejudicial to the defendant because the solicitorinsisted that…
0176 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: This was prejudicial to the defendant, because the crew on the English Ave., car upon which the little girl, Mary Phagan, came to town, testified that she got on their car at…
0177 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: "When the witness Conley was brought to the jail Mr. Roberts came to the cell and wanted Frank to see Conley. I sent word through Mr. Roberts that Frank didn't care to…
0178 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: absence of his own counsel, was evidence of guilt.46. (j). Because the court permitted Miss Mary Pirk to be askedthe following questions and to make the following answers oncross examination made by…
0179 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: ould acts of immorality with women be heard, even on crossexamination, as evidence of bad character, and reputation, uponFrank's trial for the murder of Mary Phagan.Lasciviousness is not one of the character…
0180 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: defendant, made as above stated and in doing so committederror, for the reasons herein stated.This was prejudicial to the defendant, because the SolicitorGeneral, contended that his failure to sooner report the findingof…
0168 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: above stated. This was prejudicial to the defendant, because itwas contended by the State that this witness, Harry Scott, whowas one of the Pinkerton detectives, and had been employed toferret out the…
0169 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: crime he accompanied Mary Phagan from a point on Bellwood Ave.,to the center of the City of Atlanta, by showing that on April27th at the house of Epps, he asked George, together…
0170 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: it was wholly immaterial as to what his custom previous to thattime had been.31. Because, during the trial the following colloquy took placebetween the solicitor and the witness Schiff:-Q. Isn't the dressing…
0151 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: Mr. Dalton---The lady that was there was a tall built lady, heavy weight, she was nice looking, had on a blue looking dress with white dots in it, had on a greyish…
0154 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: room when he told me to watch for him that time. I don't knowif he knew Snowball was there or not. The day before Thanksgivingwhen he talked to Snowball, we were on-the…
0155 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: I think some ladies were working up on thefourth floor. I don't know about the third time, and I don'tknow whether anybody was working there Thanksgiving afternoonor not, I didn't see Mr.…
0156 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: The Court ruled that such evidence would be immaterial, butafter this ruling the solicitor brought out the direct testi-mony and excluded. After the direct testimony supra had been brought outand excluded. After…
0157 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image:---17. Because the Court permitted, over the objection of defendant's counsel made when the same was offered, that the same was irrelevant and immaterial, the State, by Mangum, to testify that Conley and…
0158 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: "I discovered, as I say, at that time, that our ideas about howquickly cabbage digested were rather erroneous, and as Iremarked a moment ago, I observed that the stomach freed itselfof a…
0159 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: certain that this girl either came to her death orpossiblythe blow on her head at any rate, a very short time, perhapsthree quarters of an hour or half an hour or forty…
0160 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: indicated in every instance,from 38 to 70 minutes in every single instance, the cabbagewas practically digested, practically altogether so.Over objections made as is above stated, the Court permittedthis testimony to go to…
0162 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: basement; that he saw Conley there when he went there; thatsometimes when he saw him in his office there would be ladiesthere, sometimes there would be two and sometimes one; hedid not…
0163 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: Q. How many times?A. I don't know; three, or four, or five times.Q. Were you ever in the office of Leo M. Frank?A. Yes sir.Q. On what occasion?A. I have been there…
0164 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: Q. What else?A. Some beer, some times.A. Some beer?A. Yes sir.Q. Were those ladies doing any stenographic work up there?A. I never seed them doing any writing. I never stayed there long,…
0165 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: the motion of defendant's counsel to rule out the testimony ofthe witness Conley tending to show acts of perversion on thepart of the defendant and acts of immorality wholly discon-nected with and…
0167 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Here is the extracted text from the image: The Court admitted these samples of partly digested cabbagetaken from the stomach of others, as aforesaid, and in doing so,committed error for the reasons above stated, and for the further reason that…