0211 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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Dorsey."

(f). On the last day of the trial, Monday, August 25th, 1913
a large crowd, including many women, had assembled in the
court room before court opened, taking up every seat in the
court room. The jury were in their room about 20 feet from the
court room, and as Mr. Dorsey entered the room, the crowd
applauded loudly by clapping of hands and stamping of feet,
which the jury perhaps could have heard. The court did nothing
but admonish the people that if the applause was repeated, he
would clear the court room.

(g). On Monday the last day of the trial after the argument
of counsel had been had and the charge of the court had been
given and the case was in the hands of the jury, when Solicitor
Dorsey left the court room a very large crowd awaited him in front
of the court house and shouted and applauded by clapping their
hands and shouting, "Hurrah for Dorsey."

(h). When it was announced that the jury had agreed upon a ver-
dict, the Judge of the Superior Court, his honor L. S. Roan,
went to the court house which was a comparatively small room
on the first floor, at the junction of Hunter and Pryor
streets, and found the court room packed with spectators.
Fearful of misconduct among the spectators in the court room,
the court of his own motion cleared the room before the jury
announced their verdict. When the verdict of guilty was
rendered, the fact of the rendition of such verdict was signaled
to the crowd on the outside, which consisted of a large
concourse and crowd of people standing upon Hunter and Pryor
streets. Immediately upon receiving such signal and while the
court was engaged in polling the jury and before the polling ended
great shouts arose from the people on the outside, expressing gra-
tification. Great applauding, shouting and halloing was
heard on the streets and so great became the noise on the streets
that the court had difficulty in hearing the responses of the
jurors as polled the mean and same were given, as the
defendant contends, that the defendant did not have a fair and
impartial jury trial and that the demonstration of the crowds