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408 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

Juvaz Roan: Mr. Sheriff, I will pass sentence tomorrow.
Have the prisoner here. I will notify you in time of the
hour. Gentlemen of the jury, I thank you for your patient
service in this ease. This has been the longest trial I have
ever participated in, and I dare say the longest you ever
have or ever will. Thanking you again for your long and
faithfal eervice and arduoua labora the Court will now dis-
miss you. The state will furnish your seript for twenty-nine
days.

August 26.

Juvez Roan: Mr. Frank, stand up. The jury which has
been trying you for days or rather for weeks, on yesterday aft-
ernoon rendered a verdict finding you guilty of murder. It is
now my duty as the presiding judge of this court to pass the
sentence of the law upon you for that offense, Before I pass
that sentence, have you anything to sey, wherefore it should
not be passed.

Frank: I say now, as I have alwaya said, that I am inno-
cent. Further than that my case is in the hands of my coun-
eel.

Jupez Roan: Mr. Frank, I have tried to see that you had
a fair trial for the offense for which you have been indicted.
T have the consciousness of knowing that I heve made every
effort, as the law requires me to do, to see that your trial was
fair. Your counsel has notified me that a motion for a new

from the court house door he was picked up bodily by members of
the waiting crowd, avd on their shoulders carried to his office in the
Kiser building across Pryor street. The shouting waa deafening
when the solicitor appeared in the street. Two ballots were cast by
the jury before an agreement was reached, The first ballot cast
showed eleven members for a verdict of guilty withont the recommen-
dation of merey and one in doubt. After one more ballot, an hour
later, the twelfth man came over to the majority and made the carly
verdict possible. Judge Roan declared that never in all of his
experience had he witnessed such a demonstration following the
announcement of a verdict. The shout from the 2,000 gathered ont-
side the court room attracted more, and in ten minutes after the ver-
dict was made public the crowd was so great that the police reserves
began riding through it in an effort to disperse it”—Atlanta Jour-
nal, Aug. 26, 1913. .

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