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…
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…
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!"…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
124 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:92 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSThe central question we must consider is, "Was Worrell a responsible being at the time of the homicide?"I have already admitted the difficulty that confronts me at this point. Even…
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,…
123 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 91It is difficult to understand the erring reason of a juror as he is passing from the known to the unknown. When you attempt to place yourself in the position of…
120 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:88 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Now, jurors, let us inquire if every possible hypothesis but the one sought to be proved is satisfactorily negated in this case. Gordon died from a single gunshot wound in…
121 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 89Are you going to hang a man based on your best solution? That is precisely what was done by the jury who murdered the innocent girl; by Jacob; by every jury…
119 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 87Was it "without doubt rent in pieces"? The coat was Joseph's, but all that followed was an error made up of one false act and false reasoning from the known to…
118 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:86 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The fate of the unfortunate girl encapsulates the entire narrative. If we fail to learn from it, the lessons of broader experience would be futile. Had the advocate in her…
117 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 85It was hypothesized that she was guilty, but her guilt was not excluded. However, it never occurred to him to suggest to the jury that, as the house in which the…
116 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:84 & AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Gentlemen! Peer with the eyes of the mind through the infinitely possible combinations of circumstances, and group together facts in such a way as to save her. She is innocent!…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…