111 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 79It is essential to be reasonable. Thus, this inference of the witness is made the starting point in the process of reasoning by the juror; and if wrong, in fact, secures…
112 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:80 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS."Circumstantial evidence should to a moral certainty exclude every hypothesis but the one proposed to be proved." (1 Starkie 511, 512.) Lastly, "Circumstantial evidence ought in no case to be…
113 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 81Can you answer this question: If you answer (as the prosecution has asserted by indictment and by speech) that one of the two, Braff or Worrell, killed him, the answer shows…
114 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:82 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The critical issue at hand is not merely the presence of a hypothesis but whether every other hypothesis is excluded to a moral certainty. That is the question! That is…
115 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 8&3It is our duty to search diligently, anxiously, and honestly. If you reason badly, it is fatal. If you do not imagine well, it is fatal; and yet, circumstantial evidence is…
106 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:74 YY. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.To establish murder in the first degree, the prosecution must prove deliberation and premeditation, which together form the legal definition of malice: the concurrence of these states of mind and…
107 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORPELLThe defense has taken a wide range, to which we have interposed no objection, beginning as far back as 1831. We have, on the part of the State, come up step by…
108 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:76 &X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.You will no longer have to wait. I cannot anticipate Major Wright's defense. He will be elaborate and entertaining; he will read many cases. If he satisfies you that the…
109 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 17The prosecution is moved to the law only by the point of the bayonet, and it will not budge an inch further than the practical puncture of the instrument forces it.…
110 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:78 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.This is not a fact guessed at by you, or inferred, implied, or presumed by the law in the absence of knowledge. Can it be found in the evidence you…
102 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:70AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.I met with Worrell again in St. Louis and had a conversation with him. He recognized me and recalled the horse trade. I asked him if he did not think he should…
103 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL71I came back that night. I had no long or continuous conversation with Worrell while he was there. I don’t profess to be a good judge of insanity, but I know it…
104 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:American State TrialsMr. Gale, for the StateMr. Gale: Gentlemen of the jury, it becomes necessary for me, as the circuit attorney of this district, to address you in this important case. After the length…
105 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLWe have all read lately of Huntington in New York, a wealthy nabob who had been practicing forgery for years. He set up insanity as his defense. Who is to judge this…
097 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 65I would pat my hands over his eyelids, and it seemed to compose him. He would continually talk, call over the roll of soldiers, and almost invariably call constantly on Lieut.…
098 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSThe mental symptoms were not changed materially after the paroxysm was over, in the cases which I have seen. Epilepsy is caused sometimes by mechanical violence, such as a stroke or…
099 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL87It is easy. If I understand the duties of a first sergeant, he could not be an imbecile, as I have defined it, without it having been found out.Mr. Wright: Suppose it…
100 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:68AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Cross-examined: I have never seen epilepsy combined with the form of insanity known as irresistible impulse. There is a form of insanity known as homicidal mania, when a person, knowing right from…
101 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL69A person afflicted in such a manner should not be continued in such an office. If the recruiting officer did his duty, a person so afflicted could not be enlisted.**Charles T. Clark.**…
095 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 63The symptoms were violent and more frequent in the forenoon. Sometimes they would begin with drowsiness. He became restless if things did not go right. He would then have a peculiar…
092 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS60I am from Leavenworth and belong to the U.S. Army as a private. I knew Worrell from the time I met him at Columbus until he left Fort Leavenworth. He never…
093 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 61I don’t recollect all the persons who were present at the time of his illness in the orderly room. A short time after the doctor gave him medicine, he became calm.…
094 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Edward's normal condition was at Portsmouth, Ohio, at Eldon & Barra's store in the beginning of 1850. I don’t know if he had any fits at Cumberland. While there, he dashed…
096 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.He woke up. As far as I saw, his condition was the same after the paroxysm at Portsmouth as at Baltimore. I saw him again in the same condition at Claysville,…
088 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.There was no picture there. He was working his fingers without any apparent object, and soon commenced pulling the hair out of his head. His eyes were wandering, and he seemed…
089 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL57I knew several individuals attached to his family who were crazy. I have known his father to be a very eccentric man. It has been commonly understood in the neighborhood that Mr.…
090 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:58X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.George Urghart: I had some personal acquaintance in 1855 with Worrell; I boarded in the same house with him and his father and mother. He occupied part of my dental office…
091 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLWe arrived in Baltimore on Sunday evening. Worrell stopped at Mrs. Elzie’s on Second Street, between Gay and South streets, a private boarding house. He told me he had formerly boarded there.…
087 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:Edward D. WorrellI first met Edward D. Worrell in Boone County, Missouri, in the spring of 1855. He told me he was a private in Company B, Dragoons of the U.S. Army. He desired…
083 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 51After the close of the evidence, I will refer you to many authors. At present, I read to you from Ray's Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity, section 381:"To determine exactly the mental…