151 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 119In any arson, rape, robbery, burglary, or other felony, the first and second class express malice is essential and forms a necessary ingredient in the offense, while in the third class…
152 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:120 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.In its legal sense, the term "malice" signifies an evil design in general, a wicked and corrupt motive, an intention to do evil. Blackstone, in his Commentaries, states, "That it…
150 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:118 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.When persons confederate and engage in a common design, the act of one is the act of all. If a blow is given, the blow of one is the blow…
149 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLMurders are almost invariably committed under circumstances of secrecy. The murderer abides his time and goes forth in the dark hours of the night to do his bloody work. Conscious that no…
153 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 121If a private person endeavors to suppress an affray or apprehend a felon, and another person, knowing his authority or the intention with which he interposes, kills him, the law will…
146 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:114 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Mr. Morgan testified that on the 13th of January in St. Louis, he let Mr. Gordon have a chestnut sorrel horse to go up the line of the North Missouri…
144 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:112 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.I would like to know if he suffered after he was shot. The prisoner replied, hanging his head, "He did not." Several days after this, I again saw the prisoner…
145 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLEdward D. Worrell remained until the 6th, when he left by train for the East. Bruff left two days earlier. They brought three horses with them: two bays and a chestnut sorrel.…
147 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 115The defense has attempted to discredit this type of evidence by parading before you the case of the servant girl who was executed in England for the murder of her mistress,…
148 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:116 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.It is not the case that jurors lie; however, witnesses may, and often do. The experience of mankind shows that jurors are often imposed upon by witnesses who testify under…
143 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, IIIThey recognized me. The prisoner inquired about my family and the condition of the road. The body of Gordon was found two and one-half miles east of my house.I would here…
139 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLThe limits of the circuit, and some few beyond the limits of the state, have been considered in this case. To have imposed the preparation of the case upon the circuit attorney…
142 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:110 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.A witness testified that he was about two miles east of Ferguson, in company with two other men, all riding horseback, one of whom was Braff. The witness was on…
141 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 109We were surprised to find that Gordon had not arrived. Several days elapsed, and we began to apprehend that something had happened to him. Walker learned from a Mr. McDonald, a…
140 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:108 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The defense argues the following points:1. That Worrell cannot be convicted of murder in the first degree because he is not charged with committing a felony in the indictment.2. That…
137 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 105It shocks the moral sense to assert it as a rule of judgment: "Murder must be committed by a sane person." The law has shifted the onus to presume sanity, but…
135 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORBELLIn the case of Edward D. Worbell, the poor prisoner had no superior. What is insanity but the sudden and prolonged departure from the normal standard of character, without any known external…
136 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:104 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The witnesses speak for themselves. There is a power in their presence and mode of testifying which drew from the circuit attorney the exclamation: "I believe every word they say!"…
138 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:106 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSIf the answer should be "alive," the intent was to crush its life out; if "dead," to open his palm and give the captive liberty. The difference in these cases…
131 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLWhen left to himself, you do not find Edward D. Worrell acting under an alias. He is always conspicuously Worrell, without any other name. However, little significance can be attached to this…
130 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:98 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.McKee was told, "Well, he did!" He went to both Dovers, but wherever he went, he wore the cap and military pants, Gordon's watch with the watch paper in it,…
132 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:4100 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS."The blood of Gordon on his soul," he could sit in a theater, finding an interest in its mimetic scenes. He is horrified that Gordon's specter had not the power…
133 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 101.The conduct of the prisoner there is worthy of particular observation, and so do I; but we draw opposite conclusions from the same premises. As soon as the travelers enter the…
134 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:102 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.You see him without a cause, and with a frantic look scattering a frightened multitude. You see him passing, after night, a sentinel whose duty compelled him to shoot. You…
125 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 93Do not heed the counsel that is at odds with the letter and spirit of our laws, as you value all that men should hold dear.In my opening statement, I mentioned…
128 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:96 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.He has gotten him; promenades the town with the landlord; visits often the depot of the trains from St. Louis, and attends a ball held in that depot! He talks…
126 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:94 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Worrell's manner of travel was no match for the cunning of an old and skillful detective, who could not be kept from the prisoner's track for long.The circuit attorney was…
129 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLEdward D. Worrell, with his remarkable beard, his remarkable military pants, his military cap, and the not-so-remarkable saddlebags of Gordon, keeps his company without change until he reaches Pittsburgh. There, McGee induces…
127 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLEdward D. Worrell's identity was established by a combination of distinctive features, or "remarkables." These included a notable lump, wen, or knot under his chin that caught the attention of even the…
122 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:90 XY. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.In a case where the government itself fails in the end and object for which it alone was created, it is the "immedicable vulnus" of a State.You will remember, jurors,…