1466 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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6. Referring to ground 6 with reference to the newly discovered evidence of Mrs. J. B. Simmons, the State shows, that this constitutes no satisfactory ground for a new trial, because first, this evidence could not have been produced and would not have been produced a different result in view of the overwhelming and preponderance of the evidence that this girl was dead not later than one-thirty o'clock, and could not have screamed at the time and place referred to by Mrs. Simmons. Second, the said Mrs. Simmons is shown by the following affidavits to be one of the most disreputable and worthless characters that ever disgraced any community. The worthlessness, the lack of character on the part of the said Mrs. J. B. Simmons, is shown by the following affidavits,

(James J. Green,)
(R. S. Ozburn,)
(Mrs. Willie M. Blacker,)
(C. H. Brannon,)
(George H. Phillips,)
(L. O. Askew,)
(Isaac Wheeler,)
(J. F. MoGill,)
(James T. Mo Ser,)
(Jim Daly,)
(R. G. Patton,)
(E. W. Crump,)
(Thos. Christian,)
(T. B. Street,)
(Mrs. J. B. Simmons,)
(A. B. Williams) (Mrs. Simmons' son-in-law),