1914 November 24 Atlanta Constitution 12 Pages Georgia
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- 1914 November 24 Atlanta Constitution 12 Pages Georgia
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- Justice Lamar
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- 1914
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1914 November 24 Atlanta Constitution 12 Pages Georgia
Author: Atlanta Constitution
Year: 1914
PDF PAGE 1, COLUMN 3 FRANK CASE GOES TO OTHER JUDGES Attorneys Will Exhaust Every Effort to Get Hear- ing Before Full Bench of Supreme Court. By John Corrigan, Jr. Washington, November 23.—(Special.)—Associate Justice Joseph R. Lamar denied this afternoon the Application of Leo M. Frank’s lawyers for a writ of error which would bring this murder Case before the Supreme Court and stay the execution of the death penalty. Frank was convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan in Atlanta in 1913. Unless some other Justice should take a different view and grant the writ, the Case is ended so far as the Supreme Court is concerned. Frank’s lawyers are preparing an Appeal to each of the other members of the Court in succession. For this reason, they have declined to make public the Memorandum prepared by Justice Lamar in denying the Application for the writ. Harry A. Alexander and Henry C. Peeples, the Atlanta lawyers, are still here and will begin tomorrow to lay the Case before other individual members of the Supreme Court. This they have a perfect right to do, and if any single justice should decide to grant the writ the Case would come before the Supreme Court for a decision as to whether Fr