Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-23

IN the trial, Solicitor Dorsey took
sharp and indignant issue with Judge
Roam asserting that il was not in
the province of the Judge to give his
opinion as to whether it was possible
for the jurors to have heard the DEM
onstration
Il can give my opinion if | wish"
retorted the judge. The matter was
compromised by the qualification that
this possibility was commended"
Indications Thursday were that the
review of the lis reasons would hard
sly be completed by night. 1t is un-
before Friday noon. They will re-
quire at least one day.
The character of Frank a burning
issue during his trial for the murder
of Mary Phagan, again was the sub
ject of animated argument Almost
The entire forenoon was given over to
a fight by Franks attorneys to estaD-
fish as reasons for new trial the
admission by Judge Roam of all the
mass of evidence which sought 10
prove Frank a pervert and a degen-
crate of the worst type.
Throughout the hearing the law
yers for Frank made ground after
ground for a new trial upon the at
lacks that had been made by the So
licitor upon Franks character. II
ba convict o
mans lawyers we're confident that the
court had been led into an error by
admitting testimony of this sort,
Each Question Commended.
Every question asked By the So
liCitor during the trial which sought
10 elicit answers derogatory to
Franks character and moral conduct
entered into the numerous reasons for
"a new trial.
The admission of all the testimony
bearing on Franks alleged attitude
toward women and his reported acts
Of perversion, particularly as testified
10 by Conley; the alleged bias If
jurors. and the demonstrations in ths
courtroom are the three grounds for
new trial on which the defense viii
place the greatest stress in their
arguments, according to all indica-
.
hearing.
The testimony of Miss Irene Jack
son. the pretty daughter of County
Policeman jackson, formed the basis
of a heated argument at the outset
of the hearing between Solicitor Dor
sey and A. f.. Stephens on one side
and Reuben Arnold and Herbert Haas
on the other the attorneys for the de-
tense coming off victorious.
1 oh af Of 10
Frank, was not present when the
hearing resumed in the little ante
room off the library in the State Lii
brary.
Attack Girls Testimony.
Miss Jacksons testimony was taken
up in the forty third reason. The
court was declared in error because
Miss Jackson hao l zen permitted 10
tell of alleged particular acts of i'm
morality on the part of Frank which
had nothing to do with the crime Of
murder
Dorsey maintained that absolutely
no objection had been made at the
time Arnold and Haas replied that
blanket or omnibus objection had
been made while Ashley Jones was on
the stand from which ruling came
that all testimony of this class should
be regarded as objected to.
Defense wins again.
Judge Roam decided in favor of
Arnold and Haas. remarking that
the testimony of Miss jackson, which
had to do with Franks conduct in
The ladies' dressing room on the
fourth floor seemed to be covered by
the objection to the cross question
ing of Jones, and also to the direct
examination of c. b. Dalton, one of
the States witnesses.
The forty sixth reason contended
that the court erred in letting in the
questions of the Solicitor when Miss
Lula Mcdonald was on the stand.
Miss Mcdonald was asked II she was
aware that Frank on the Saturday
previous to the murder had been seen
on a car to Hapeville in company with
a Young girl whom he sought TO per
suade to leave the car with him, The
witness denied that she knew or any
such circumstances, but Franks law
3 yers commended that the questions, re-
gardless of the answers given, tended
10 place in the minds of the jurors
an unfavorable conception of the de-
PENDANTS character, circumstance
extremely prejudicial to his case, The
reason was approved by Judge Roam.
Boys Story Called Unfair.
The forty-seventh ground, based OF
the testimony OF Willie Turner, also
was approved az BASIS OF argument
Turner testified that he saw Frank
talking with Mary Phagan some
weeks before the murder and the
defense objected on the ground that
The solicitor unfairly was seeking to
build up in the minds OF the jurors
the conviction that Frank for some
time previous to the pencil factory
ragedy was making persistent en-
GeaVors TO become intimate with the
girl. a suspicion which was unjust
in view of the meaeer evidence.
The forty eighth reason was with
drawn by Attorney Arnold because
his objection made during the trial
10 the testimony Of w. p. Murk,
street car conductor, had been with
drawn. Murk had testified that he
met Daisy Hopkins one Saturday, and
that she told him she was on her way
TO the pencil factory where she had
an engagement with the boss"
The Hopkins woman was wit
ness during the trial. and her char
acter and reputation were vigorously
assailed by the State.
Before the hearing was well under
way Attorney Rosser announced that
there We're number of affidavits
which he had not yet obtained, but