1562 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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as Mr. Dorsey, the Solicitor-General, was leaving the court room a large
crowd assembled in front of the court-house and, in the hearing of
the jury, cheered and shouted "Hurrah for Dorsey",
(e) That during the trial, on Saturday, August 23, 1913,
when Court adjourned and Mr. Dorsey emerged from the court room, a
large crowd, standing on the street, applauded and cheered him,
shouting "Hurrah for Dorsey". At that time the jury was between the
court house and what is known as the Criminal Court Building, near enough
to the crowd to hear the cheering, and some of the jury were
in the crowd moved up in front of the court house when the jury emerged
at lunch. (f) On the morning of Tuesday, Monday, August 25, 1913,
a large crowd, including many women, had assembled in the court room
before court had opened, taking up every seat in the court room.
The jury were in their room about twenty 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 argu-
ment of counsel had been made and the charge of the court had been
given, and the case was in the hands of the jury, Solicitor Dorsey
left the court room and 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 verdict, the Judge of the Superior Court, his Honor, L.S.Roam,
went to the court house, which was comparatively small on
the second 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, and while the jury were in the room, the crowd on the
outside, which consisted of a large concourse of people
standing upon Hunter and Pryor Streets. Immediately upon receiving
such signal, while the court was engaged in polling the jury,
and before the polling ended, great shouts arose from the people
on the outside, expressing gratification. Great applause,
shouting and hailing 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 he polled them. These incidents
show such a defiant attitude that the defendant did not
have a fair and impartial jury trial, and the demonstrations
of the crowd assembled around the court house was so noticeable as to affect the
jury.

Ground 66. The court room wherein this trial was had was
situated at the corner of Hunter and Pryor Streets. There are a
number of windows on the Pryor Street side looking out upon the
street and furnishing easy access to any one that would go
upon the street. The court room itself is situated on Hunter St.
is 20 feet from Pryor Street. There is an open alleyway running
from Pryor Street along the side of the court house and there
are windows from the alley which look out upon Pryor Street, when
noise in the alley can easily be heard in the court room.
Solicitor Dorsey left the court room on the last day of the trial,
after the case had been submitted to the jury. A large and boister-
ous crowd of several hundred people was standing in the street in
front of the court house and as he came out greeted him with loud
and boisterous applause, taking him upon their shoulders and carry-
ing him across the street into the Kiser Building, wherein he had
his offices. This crowd did not wholly disperse during the inter-
val between the giving of the case to the jury and the time when
a verdict was reached by the jury, but during the whole of such time
a large crowd was upon Pryor Street, in front of the court house.
When it was announced that the jury had reached a
verdict, his Honor, Judge L.S.Roam, went to the court room and
found it crowded with spectators to such an extent as to interfere
with the court's orderly procedure, and fearing misconduct in the
court room, his Honor cleared it of spectators. The jury was then
brought in for the purpose of delivering their verdict. When the
verdict of guilty was announced, a signal was given to the crowd
that effect. The large crowd of people standing on the outside
cheered and shouted and hurrahed at the outset of the poll of the