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LEO M. FRANK. 263

He is the man ebout whom it appeared that the whole fight
would center. If he could convince you that Jim confessed
the murder to him, that would let Frank out! Yet where is
Mincey? Gentlemen, this has been a long testimony which
you have hed to sit through, and I do not wish to take up any
more of your time than necessary.

Gentlemen, the only belief required of you is the same sort
of belief that you would have upon the street, at your places
of business, or in your homes, and on this belief you are to act.
Simply use your common sense in the jury box. I thank you.

ME, ARNOLD, FOR THE PRISONER.

Mr. Arnold. Gentlemen of the Jury: We are all to be
congratulated that this case is drawing to a close. We have
all suffered here from trying a long and complicated case at
the heated term of the year. It has been a case that has
taken so much effort and so much concentration and so much
time, and the quarters here are so poor, that it has been par-
ticularly hard on you members of the jury who are prac-
tically in custody while the case is going on. I know it’s
hard on a jury, to be kept confined this way, but it is neces-
sary that they be segregated and set apart where they will
get no impression at home nor on the street, The members of
the jury are in a sense set apart on a mountain, where, far
removed from the. passion and heat of the plain, calmness
rules them and they can judge a case on its merits.

My friend Hooper said « funny thing here a while ago.
I don’t think he meant what he said, however. Mr. Hooper
said that the men in the jury box are not different from the
men on the street. Your Honor, I’m learning something
every day, and I certainly learned something today, if that’s
‘true.

‘Hr. Hooper. Mr. Arnold evidently mistakes my meaning, which
I thought I made clear. I stated that the men in the jury box were
like they would be on the street in the fact that in making up their
minds about the guilt or innocence of the accused they must uze the

same common sense that they would if they were not part of the
oourt.

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