1914 November 15 Atlanta Constitution 52 Pages Georgia
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1914 November 15 Atlanta Constitution 52 Pages Georgia
Author: Atlanta Constitution
Year: 1914
PDF PAGE 45, COLUMN 1 LEO FRANK LOSES IN SUPREME COURT Petition to Set Aside Ver- dict Because He Was Not in Court When It Was Rendered, Denied. The fight which has been waged in the state Courts to save Leo M. Frank, convicted of the murder of little Mary Phagan, came to an end Saturday at 1 o’clock—so far as the state Courts are concerned—when the Supreme Court affirmed the decision of Judge Benjamin H. Hill in refusing to set aside the verdict on the ground that Frank was not in Court when the verdict was read. Within a few minutes after the decision had reached the clerk’s office, Leonard Haas, Attorney and close personal friend of Frank, declared that next move would be in the nature of a writ of error to the United States Supreme Court. Attorney Haas is still hopeful as ever that Frank will be freed. “I am more certain than ever that the truth is coming out,” Attorney Haas said. “Frank is just as innocent of the crime he has been convicted of as I am, and I know that I had nothing to do with the killing.” All justices of the Supreme Court except Justices Fish, who is ill, concurred in the decision. The opinion of the Court, covering almost every phase of the Case, was written