Category: APPEALS GEORGIA SUPREME COURT
0931 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: The solicitor-general having, in his concluding argument, made the various statements of fact about the Durant case, as shown in the preceding ground of this motion, the judge erred in failing to charge the…
0932 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: wonderful endowments which, if directed in the right line, bring honor and glory; if those same faculties and talents are perverted and not controlled, as was the case with this man, they will carry…
0933 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Mr. Arnold: That's absolutely incorrect, they never saw Quinn there then, and never swore they did.Mr. Dorsey (resuming): No, they didn't see him there; I doubt if anybody else saw him there, either.Mr. Arnold:…
0934 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: the defendant's wife had not visited him for a certain time after he was firstimprisoned, told the jury:"Do you tell me that there lives a true wife, conscious of her husband'sinnocence, that wouldn't have…
0935 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 98. Movant says that a new trial should be granted because of the following:The Solicitor-General, in his concluding argument to the jury, spoke as follows: -If there be a negro who accuses me of…
0936 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Mr. Dorsey (resuming): Now, may it please Your Honor, if they don't see the force of it, you do—Mr. Rosser: I want to know, is Your Honor's ruling to be absolutely disregarded like that?The…
0937 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: The Solicitor-General, in his concluding argument, referring to the visitof the defendant to Bloomfield's undertaking establishment, on April 27, madethe following remarks to the jury:Frank says that he visited the morgue only once but…
0938 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Mr. Rosser: Now, the question of whether Boots said he went into that room is now easily settled. (Mr. Rosser here read that portion of the cross examination of the witness Rogers, stating that…
0939 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Mr. Dorsey: Holloway says when he got back Monday morning it washung up in the office, but Boots Rogers said this man Frank—and he was sus-tained by other witnesses—when he came there to run…
0940 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Whereupon the following colloquy occurred:Mr. Arnold: There's not a word of evidence as to that, that's a grossly improper argument, and I move that that be withdrawn from the jury.Mr. Dorsey: I don't state…
0941 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 102. Movant further says that a new trial should be granted because ofthe following:The Solicitor-General, in his concluding argument, in referring to act ofJudge Roan discharging the witness Conley, from custody, stated:"Judge Roan did…
0942 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: to act, and erroneous actions, by the Court, and because of such improper and illegal argument, movant says a new trial should be granted.103. Because the Court erred in failing to charge the jury,…
0943 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: EXHIBIT A.Georgia, Dougherty County.The State of Georgia ) Indictment for Murder.v. ) In Superior Court Fulton County, Georgia.Leo M. Frank. ) Motion for New Trial.Before me personally appeared R. L. Gremer, who being duly…
0944 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Frank jury, expressed himself as being convinced of Leo M. Frank's guilt of the murder of Mary Phagan; the exact language used by said party, deponent does not recollect, but his recollection is that…
0945 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: known and recognized by this deponent as one of the jurors who tried the Frank case and returned a verdict of guilty; said A. H. Henslee was at said Elks Club at the time…
0946 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: affidavit, and deponents have brought same to the attention of the Court at the earliest possible moment at which the Court could take cognizance of said affidavit; after the trial, which is the date…
0947 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: that he is personally acquainted with M. Johenning, one of the jurors in the above stated case, and that during the month of May, 1913, said M. Johenning had a conversation with this deponent,…
0948 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Affiant further says that at and before said trial was entered on, and during the whole of said trial that affiant had no knowledge whatsoever as to M. Johenning and A. H. Henslee, two…
0949 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: During the course of the trial deponent saw the jury pass to the jury box from the rear of the court room, the jury passed immediately by this deponent and also by a man,…
0950 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: being in the automobile with him his mother Mrs. Rose Kay, and his brother, Sampson Kay; that as the automobile approached the corner of South Pryor and East Fair Streets, he observed the jurymen…
0951 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: EXHIBIT N.Georgia, Fulton County.The State of Georgiavs.Leo M. Frank. Fulton Superior Court.Personally appeared before the undersigned, a Notary Public in and forsaid county, Mrs. A. Shurman, who on oath says that she is a…
0952 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: EXHIBIT P.Georgia, Fulton County.The State of Georgia ) Fulton Superior Court.vs. )Leo M. Frank. )Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Notary Public in and for said county, Sampson Kay, who being duly sworn…
0953 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Union car shed, corner Pryor and Wall Streets, he still observed one of the figures in the jury-room peering southward, with both hands upon the window sill, whom he recognized as being Juror Smith,…
0954 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: On the day aforesaid, to-wit—that the jury returned the verdict, Mr.Cochran was standing in front of the Court House at the time the jury came out of the Court House to go to dinner;…
0955 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Just preceding Solicitor Dorsey, the jury had come out of the Court House and had gone a short way up the street to the German Cafe for lunch; at the time of this cheering,…
0956 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: jury came out of the court-room, Mr. Dorsey came out, and the crowd set up cheering and yelling "Hurrah for Dorsey." At the time of the yelling and cheering the jury was just crossing…
0957 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Deponent further states that he was in room 301 of the Kiser Building,on Saturday, August 23; that he saw the jury emerge from the court houseentrance at about one o'clock; that a few minutes…
0958 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: opposite the entrance, and afterwards the crowd yelled "Hurrah for Dorsey," and the volume of the yells were so great that they could have been heard many blocks away; that they threw up their…
0959 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: EXHIBIT BB.Georgia, Dougherty County.State of Georgia,vs.Leo M. Frank. ⎫ In the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia. ⎬ ⎭Before me personally appears Mack Farkas, who being duly sworn deposes and says that attached to…
0960 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: EXHIBIT BB—(Continued)Georgia, Dougherty County.State of Georgia, vs. Leo M. Frank. In the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia.Before me personally appeared Sam Farkas, who being duly sworn deposes and says that attached to the…