1915 April 23 Atlanta Constitution 14 Pages Georgia
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- 1915 April 23 Atlanta Constitution 14 Pages Georgia
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1915 April 23 Atlanta Constitution 14 Pages Georgia
Author: Atlanta Constitution
Year: 1915
PDF PAGE 9, COLUMN 1 FRANK MAKES PLEA FOR COMMUTATION Condemned Man Reiterates Innocence and Says He Was Convicted on Ques- tionable Evidence. Attorneys for Leo Frank have filed with Captain Goodloe H. Yancey, Secretary of the State Prison Commission, his Petition for Executive Clemency in a last effort to spare his life. He asks commutation to life imprisonment. The Petition was signed by Frank and filed at the Capitol early Thursday afternoon, at least two days earlier than was expected. Frank’s Chief contention is that he is absolutely innocent of the Crime for which he stands convicted, and that the evidence on which he was tried was not substantial, but was questionable and unreliable. To Await Notification. No hearing will be given the Petition, it is stated, until after the Mandate from the United States Supreme Court is forwarded to the Superior Court of Georgia and after Frank has been resentenced to the Scaffold. The Washington Court’s Mandate is official notification of its verdict on the Habeas Corpus Appeal. It will not be dispatched to the Superior Court until the end of the present Supreme Court term next June. The Frank Petition follows: To the Honorable Prison Comm