0235 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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" Mr. Dorsey: Mr. Arnold brought this in, and I telegraphed
to San Francisco, and I want to read this telegram to the jury;
can't I do it?"

"Mr. Arnold: If the Court please, I want to object to any
particular letter or telegram, I can telegraph and get my
information as well as he can. I don't know whether the infor-
mation is true, I don't know who he telegraphed about it; I have
got a right to argue a matter that appears in the public prints
and that's all I argued,-what appears in the papers,- it may
be right or wrong, but if my friend has a friend he knows there
and writes and gets some information, that's introducing
evidence, and I want to put him on notice that I object to it.
I have got the same right to telegraph there and get my own infor-
mation. And besides, my friend seems to know about that case pret-
ty well, he's writing four months ago. Why did he do it?"

Mr. Dorsey, (resuming): "Because I anticipated some such claim
would be made in this case."

" Mr. Arnold: You anticipated it, then, I presume, because
you knew it was published; that's what I went on".

Mr. Dorsey (resuming): " I anticipated it, and I know the truth
about that case".

Mr. Arnold, I object to his reading any communication
unless I have the right to investigate it also; I am going only
on what I read in the public press. April 15th, is nearly two
weeks before the crime is alleged to have been committed. I want
to record an objection right now to my friend doing any such thing as that, reading a telegram from anybody picked out by my
friend Dorsey to give him the kind of information he wants for
his speech, and I claim the right to communicate out there
myself and get such information as I can, if he's given the
right to do it."

" The Court:- I'll either have to expunge from the jury
what you told the jury, in your argument, or --"

" Mr. Arnold: I don't want it expunged, I stand on it."

"The Court: I have either got to do one of the two."

"Mr. Dorsey: No sir, can't I state to this jury what I know
about it, as well as he can state what he knows?"

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