1914 January 08 Atlanta Constitution 14 Pages Georgia

1914 January 08 Atlanta Constitution 14 Pages Georgia

Author: Atlanta Constitution

Year: 1914

PDF PAGE 11, COLUMN 1 FRANK ATTORNEYS FILE SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF Insist That Roan Evaded Re- sponsibility in Denying De- fendant a New Trial. Attorneys for Leo M. Frank filed yesterday with the supreme court a supplementary brief on behalf of the defendant consisting of sixty-three closely typewritten pages. Writers of the supplementary brief state at the outset that their sole purpose in filling it is to correct alleged errors in the argument made by Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in his brief. Every circumstances urged by the prosecution as tending to prove Frank’s guilt is taken up in turn and the effort made to show that it is either untrue or a wrong inference drawn from the admitted facts. Much stress is laid upon the declaration made by the solicitor in his brief that the case rested entirely upon circumstantial evidence. In regard to what the solicitor had to say about Mary Phagan’s having, previous to her death, shown, on several occasions, her fear of Frank, the “reply brief” says: Mary Phagan Not Afraid. “There is not a line in the record to show that Mary Phagan was in fear of this defendant, btu, on the contrary, though laid off for a few days because of scarcity of material in he