The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-12-07
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Aftermath Comments ON the
Great Trial i'm Augusta,
Georgia.
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State, the defendant may draw valuable adj
missions: consequently no good lawyer, rep
resentlng any defendant in a criminal case,
ever admits in advance any material fact,
necessary to the States case.
| simply took this position as matter of
legal practice in the court house, but the
prosecution itself introduced in evidence
cecords of the court, reaching back to the
commitment examination IN 1912, to prove
against me in this case, that [ had dzaC0ys,
from the very beginning, tahen the sole re-
sp0ms5blEty, exonerating every other member
OF the editorial staff, of the business depart
aent, the circulation department, the mailing
department, the board of directors, and the
stockholders of the company.
Let me illustrate: our position of refusing
to admit in advance, any material point,
forced the prosecution to put up A. j. Knight,
who has been so exceedingly busy for the past
i've years, not only in getting evidence against
the defendant, but IN running over the circuit
NafOre each term of court, nOslng around and
nrying about in the endeavor to ascertain
y hich jurors were most prejudiced against
the defendant
At each trial, A. J. Knight has been acting
IS associate counsel for the district attorney,
- the extent at least of aiding him with in
formation concerning each member of the
]uly, and advising him how to strike.
Whether Mr.. Knights extraordinary
c-tiyiHes In this direction were worth any
tting to the prosecution, [ am not prepared
II say; but the fact that he did his best in
dlcates personal zeal in behalf of the Ro-
man Catholic prosecution, which was unex-
Yrcted and unusual.
Mr. Knight had to admit, when on the
stand and cross eXamned, that he had never
prosecuted any other publisher, although his
Gttention had been called, several wears AGO
70 the fact that other publishers were sending
Through the mails, books containing the very
same Latin as that the defendant had
printed.
Mr.. Knight had to admit, in flushed and
tdgety manner, that he did not know from
What source this persistent prosecution of the
defendant emanated.
He had received his orders from an invisi-
Die person named Sutton, who is said to oc-
cupy a position in the Inspection service,
higher than that of Inspector Knight
During all the five years that Inspector
Knight has been bounding the defendant in
this case he has found nothing lewd, lasciv-
'ous, obscene or filthy in the Sunday supple
ments of the Hearst papers, or any other
papers, he has shut his eyes to the pictures
IN the advertising departments of current
magazines he has been oblivious to the filthy
love stories published in the magazines of
Mr.. Hearst and other New York publishers
He has had no eyes for such books as "The
Fall and Rise of Susan Lennox," an un-
spealably nasty serial that has been running
through New York Magazine, going into the
homes of thousads of young girls throughout
the South, and other sections of this Union
Mr.. Knight has had no eye for the literature
on birth-control, and on such books as "What
Every Girl Should Know "What Every
Wife Should Know"2and similar books that
are scattered broadcast over the country, and