0592 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914

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within an hour or two after death. Such a wound could be afflicted
and a person remain perfectly unconscious. Fractured skull does
not necessarily produce unconsciousness. Cabbage is a carbohydrate.
It is considered the hardest food to digest among carbohydrates
because it has so much cellulose, which is woody fibre. The older
the cabbage is the more cellulose it has. Cabbage gets its diges-
tion in the mouth. That cabbage (State's Exhibit G ) has not been
masticated thoroughly. They have been swallowed almost whole. Raw
cabbage is easier digested than cooked cabbage. Cooked cabbage is
the most indigestible form of it. It is the ptyalin in the saliva
that acts on the cabbage in the mouth. It acts on the carbohydrate
part of the cabbage. The carbohydrate digestion ceases after it
leaves the mouth until it reaches the small intestines. The only
thing the stomach does is the churning movement by muscular action.
As soon as gastric juice of the stomach strikes the cabbage it
neutralizes the ptyalin and renders it inactive. It stops any
further digestion of the carbohydrate. The balance of the digestion
of the cabbage takes place in the small intestines by the pancreatic
juices. The shortest time for boiled cabbage to pass into the small
intestines is four and a half hours after it is eaten. The stomach
does not digest cabbage. A person may swallow cabbage it will
out of him whole completely undigested, and it will appear less
changed than that appears. (State's Exhibit G) Psychic influences
will retard digestion as excitement, fear, anger, also physical or
mental exercise. Substances may be in the stomach quite a while
and show very little evidences of digestion. Each stomach has its
own peculiarities. If a human body is disinterred at the end of
nine days and the stomach is taken out and among the contents you
find cabbage like that (State's Exhibit G ) and fragments of wheat
bread slightly digested, you could not by looking at the cabbage
hazard an opinion as to how long before death that had been taken
into the stomach I don't think it is possible to state within a
period of hours how long that cabbage had been in the stomach.