Monday, 1st February 1915: Frank Case Has Been Set For February 23, The Atlanta Journal

Supreme Court at Request of Frank and the State Advances Hearing

An Associated Press dispatch from Washington announces that the United States Supreme Court on Monday advanced Leo M. Frank's Habeas Corpus Appeal for oral argument to February 23, on joint request of Counsel for Frank and the State of Georgia. This advancement of the Case, as will be recalled, was requested by both the State and the Defense because if the hearing had awaited its regular turn on the Docket something like eighteen months probably would have passed before it would have been reached. The motion asking that the hearing be advanced was made to the Supreme Court by Louis Marshall, the New York lawyer who has been associated with Counsel for Frank in the Supreme Court Proceedings. Mr. Marshall, in making the motion, acted both for the Defense and the State.

Mangum Not Taking Chance on Neglecting Duty in Frank Case

(By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. C. Wheeler Mangum, Sheriff of Fulton County, Ga., appeared in Supreme Court today to make answer to notice of Appeal by Leo M. Frank, in his Habeas Corpus Proceedings. Frank is committed to the Custody of the Sheriff. It was explained that formal appearance to the Appeal notice was usually made by Attorneys for the State, but the Sheriff said he wanted no dereliction of Duty charged to him.