0025 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

Search for:

Reading Time: 3 minutes [392 words]

Here is the extracted text from the image:

Frank, which is now pending in the Superior Court of Fulton County,
Georgia.

Leo M. Frank makes the following affidavit, deposing and
saying as follows; that he is.the defendant above.named; that he did
not know, nor has he ever heard until the end of his.trial in the
above stated case, that A. H. Henslee and Marcellus Johenning had
any prejudice or bias against deponent, nor that they, or either of
them, has ever said or done anything indicating that they believed
in deponent's guilt, or had any prejudice or bias against deponent.

Shi Gray deposes and states by interrogatories issued
under Section 5918 and 5919 of the Code of 1910, as follows: I have
examined clipping from the Atlanta Georgian of August 26, 1913,
showing a picture of the jury in the above stated case, and
showing a likeness of Juror A. H. Henslee. I am personally ac-
quainted with A. H. Henslee, I heard A. H. Henslee discussing the
question of whether or not Leo M. Frank was guilty of the murder of
Mary Phagan, between the death of said Mary Phagan and the commence-
ment of the trial of Leo M. Frank charged with the murder of Mary
Phagan. In a conversation in Walker & Holmes Insurance office, some-
one asked Henslee whether he, Henslee, thought Frank was guilty of the
murder of Mary Phagan. Henslee answered in the affirmative. The answer
given by Henslee was stated positively and firmly. The conversation
lasted about 20 minutes to half an hour. All of us were talking.
Henslee asked Mr. Holmes and Mr. Johnson and others. The whole con-
versation at the time with Henslee was on the proposition as to
whether or not Leo M. Frank was guilty of the murder of Mary Phagan.
This conversation took place before the trial of Frank, and it was in
the insurance office of Walker & Holmes. I did hear A. H. Henslee
state, in Sparta, Ga., between the time of the death of Mary Phagan
and the commencement of the trial of Leo M. Frank, for the murder of
Mary Phagan, that Leo M. Frank was guilty of the murder of Mary Phagan.
I heard him say he was summoned as a Juror in the case conversation
already testified about. I am a dealer in live stock.

S. M. Johnson deposes and states by interrogatories issued
under sections 5918 and 5919 of the Code of 1910, as follows: I
have examined clipping from the Atlanta Georgian of August 26, 1913,