084 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:52 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.A few diligently conceal it, or if they avoid it, declare their murderous designs and form diverse schemes for putting them in execution, testifying no sentiment of remorse.The most of…
085 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 53The kind and gentle do not in a day grow hungry for blood. Such violent and sudden antagonisms are the surest evidence of mental disease. The law of evidence permitting proof…
086 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:54X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The only fact in the case that bears any force against the defense of insanity is the appropriation of Gordon's property. I will not omit the topic of motive when I…
079 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. © 47The joint report of all the physicians concluded that the prisoner was certainly insane at the time of the killing.The case provided an excellent opportunity for the "looking" test of…
080 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:48 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,Gentlemen, the legal test of insanity laid down by the prosecution is not law. Our own Supreme Court has repudiated it in the case of Baldwin. Knowledge of right and…
081 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 49You have been led to believe that no difficulty can attend the investigation of either subject, that your pathway in both will be as "easy as the road to a mill,"…
082 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:50 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.This aspect of it necessarily creates the difficulty of the investigation. How shall we distinguish between crime and insane impulse? May we not mistake one for the other? Is there…
074 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:42 & AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Was it that, inoculated with the virus of prejudice against the plea, you should look hatefully upon the proof of it? Or were you to be so blinded by this…
075 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 43In the middle of the nineteenth century, a rampant guilt devised fraud of the gallows and the penitentiary!A man may smile at this folly as the senseless cry greets him on…
076 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:44 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.You are to judge by intuition, not by reason. You are to cut yourself off from the influence of all knowledge gained by others after long study and painful examination…
077 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 45If there is one subject within the circle of disease that more than another tasks and taxes the human mind, it is the subject of insanity. This is the opinion of…
078 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:46 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Anyone who has made advancements in the field of science cannot help but be impressed by the great truth that "man is wonderfully and fearfully made."Insanity can be detected by…
070 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:38 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Indignation so deep and so universal was felt, and Providence supplied what indignation could not furnish.Thus, in limine, my friend would have your feelings prejudge the case. He would have…
071 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 89The vindication and the eulogy are both wrong—both hurtful—both illegal—both disturbing elements which the law carefully shuts out from the consideration of court and jury. I have no word to utter…
072 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:40 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The speaker is reminiscent of Antony's oration over the dead body of Caesar, and he is fresh from the interview of Hamlet with the "buried majesty of Denmark." If his…
073 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 41Appeal to hurtful prejudices. His work was but half done; it remains for him to shape the defense, and crush it in advance."I know," he exclaims, "there is not human power…
065 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 33The concept of "malice implied" in law is a legal fiction—a presumption made in the absence of knowledge. It is a leap in the dark, a guilty guess as to how…
066 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:384 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.We can't send him to the gallows upon it. It is a libel on our nature to presume without knowledge that every killing is with malice. Although man is capable…
067 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 35The responsibility lies upon others. It is a concept defined in the following words: "Express malice is when one, with a sedate, deliberate mind and formed design, kills another; this formed…
068 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:36 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.In the presentation of facts, the circuit attorney frankly admitted to the court and jury that the offense would only be murder in the second degree. He relied upon the…
069 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 37The power to take life is the most awful power a government possesses, and because of its gravity, its exercise demands the utmost caution. A government may take life, but it…
064 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:382 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,A firm of pork packers at Washington, where one member of the firm makes a contract with you, binds every member of the firm because each member has made every…
059 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLThe purpose of this text is to address the case made by the prosecution and to outline the grounds of the defense.The defense will be presented under two general headings:I. I shall…
060 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:28 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.In my defense, I submit that the proof has not established the proposition.The indictment contains two counts. On its face, a want of knowledge of who killed Gordon is manifest.…
061 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 29What may be considered murder in the second degree in other states may only be manslaughter, or justifiable or excusable homicide here. Amidst this confusion, one thing is certain: murder in…
062 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:30 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.In the hierarchy of offenses, and among murders recognized by common law, as well as by the codes of Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and New Jersey, some are classified as manslaughter, while…
063 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WOREKELL, 31There is no proof establishing that he knew of the design prior to the act and participated in it. If he is a responsible being, the evidence establishes the offense of…
054 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSWe purchased the horse, saddle, and bridle from Worrell after he sold him again. All three horses were sold in Vincennes. Worrell then left on the train for Terre Haute and…
055 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL23**George A. Signer:** I know the horse and saddle which Mr. Gordon rode away last January. The horse was a chestnut sorrel. The saddle was mine. It was a black English tree…
057 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 25We traced this description until we got to Pittsburgh, where we learned he had shaved. After this, the description was the same except for his beard.Captain J. E. D. CousinsI reside…