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1424 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: (ORDER STRIKING 2nd AMENDED MOTION)Upon motion of defendants counsel the amended motion for new trial based on the affidavits of Ragdale and Barber is herewith stricken from the files of this Court.This 28th day…
1425 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: (4th AMENDMENT TO MOTION.)STATE OF GEORGIAVS.LEO M. FRANK.Fulton Superior CourtExtraordinary Motion for new trial.And now comes the defendant, Leo M. Frank, and amends his extraordinary motion heretofore made in said case, and for amendment…
1426 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: justify and demand a new trial, and if introduced before a jury would produce a verdict of acquittal for this movant. This movant shows that these facts set out in Exhibit A were not…
1427 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: EXHIBIT "A"STATE OF GEORGIA, VS. LEO M. FRANK.Extraordinary motion for a new trial.In Fulton Superior Court, March Term 1914.Personally appeared Annie Maude Carter of 88-1/2 West LindenAve., who on oath says, that about October…
1428 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: one had called her, that she turned back and he then struck her with his fist, knocking her down and dragged her back where they put rubbers on pencils. That finding Mr. Frank absent,…
1429 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: statement and I have not been promised anything and don't ask anything to make this statement. I am simply telling the truth of my own free will.Detectives Langford, Choring and Sturdevant took a statement…
MISS BESSIE FLEMING, Sworn In For The Defendant, 143rd To Testify
Stream Video Download Video MISS BESSIE FLEMING, sworn for the Defendant.I worked as stenographer at Mr. Frank's office from April, 1911, to December, 1911. Mr. Frank's character was unusually good.CROSS EXAMINATIONI am just talking about my personal relations with him.…
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…
1430 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: G E O R G I AFULTON COUNTY.STATE OF GEORGIA ) VS. ) Fulton Superior CourtLEO M. FRANK. ) Extraordinary motion for new trial.Before the undersigned, personally appeared Leo M. Frank,who upon oath deposes…
1431 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: G E O R G I APULTON COUNTY.STATE OF GEORGIA ) VS. )LEO M. FRANK. ) Extraordinary motion for new trial.Personally appeared Leo M. Frank, who upon oath deposes and states that the facts…
1432 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Copy of Statement(Leo M. FrankMarie M. Gartz)
1433 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: STATE OF GEORGIAVS.LEO M. FRANK,FULTON COUNTY. Fulton Superior Court Extraordinary Motion For New Trial.GEORGIAFULTON COUNTY.Personally appeared R. R. Arnold, Morris Brandon, Herbert J. Haas, Leonard Haas and L. Z. Rosser, who upon oath deposes…
1434 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: (ORDER OF MAY 9th, 1914.)The recitals of fact contained in the grounds of the foregoing motion for new trial are hereby approved as true.This 9th day of May, 1914.B. H. Hill, Judge S. C.…
1435 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: ( 8th A M E N D M E N T TO MOTION.)GEORGIA, FULTON COUNTY.And now comes the movant, the defendant in the above stated cause, Leo M. Frank, and amends his extraordinary motion…
1436 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: rust stains and that said stain were in fact blood stains. This testimony of Georgia Denham, unknown to the movant as aforesaid, shows that the stains upon the shirt were not rust stains but…
1437 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: the notes themselves showed that they were conceived by a white man.The letters, newly discovered and hereto set out as a part and parcel of said Exhibit C, hereto attached, show therein the same…
1438 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: letters before the Court and jury, upon another trial, a verdict would and should be rendered in his favor.These letters are further material by reason of their substance they reek with the vilest filth…
1439 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 'they would not have convicted this movant upon the testimony of such a vile creature.Movant insists that these letters, introduced before a jury upon another trial, should and would produce a verdict of acquittal.I-B.…
MRS MATTIE THOMPSON, Sworn In For The Defendant, 144th To Testify
Stream Video Download Video MRS. MATTIE THOMPSON, sworn for the Defendant.I work on the fourth floor of the pencil factory. I have been there three years. Mr. Frank's general character is good. I have never heard anything against him. I…
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…
1440 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: until the date of said affidavit, Exhibit E--that said Cora L. Leffew would testify as in said Exhibit E set out and could not have ascertained such by exercising due diligence.1-C. Because of the…
1441 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Donham would testify as in said affidavit set out, nor could they have ascertained same by exercise of due diligence.1.-D. Because of the newly discovered evidence of Cora Lavender Lafeew, which evidence so newly…
1442 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: unknown to his counsel at the date of theoriginal trial and at the date when the motion for new trialwas overruled, and the fact that it is so newly discovered untilit only came to…
1443 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Deponents, nor neither of them, did not know of the existence of the letters attached to the affidavit of Annie Maud Carter, which is attached to the amended extraordinary motion for new trial and…
1444 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: of the shoulder.Affiant further states that she related the above facts to the detectives who were then working on the case and that her affidavit was taken by them.Affiant states that some of her…
1445 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Miss Mary Park, Miss Jimmie Wayfield and Annie How.Georgia X Denham markSworn to and subscribed before me,this 30th day of April 1914.J. O. Knight,Notary Public Fulton County, Ga.(Notary Seal)Corrections made before being sworn.J. O.…
1446 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Sworn to and subscribed before methis 30th day of April, 1914.D. I. Mac Intyre, Jr.Notary Public, Fulton County, Ga.STATE OF GEORGIA,Vs.Leo M. Frank.No. Fulton Superior Court.Conviction of Murder: July Term1913. Extraordinary Motion forNew Trial.Georgia,…
1447 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: State of Georgia, No. Fulton Superior Court.Vs. Conviction of Murder} July Term,1915Leo M. Frank. Extraordinary Motion for New TrialGEORGIA, FULTON COUNTY.Personally appeared before the undersigned Leo M. Frank who, being duly sworn, deposes and…
1448 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: (ORDER OF May 9th, 1914.)The recitals of fact contained in the grounds of the foregoing extraordinary motion for new trial are hereby approved as true. This 9th day of May, 1914.Benj. H. Hill,Judge S.…
1449 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: (6th AMENDMENT TO MOTION.)GEORGIA, FULTON COUNTY.Now comes the defendant Leo M. Frank, and herebyamends paragraph 2 of the original motion by striking therefromthe following words: "that she was an employee of the NationalPencil Company…