0060 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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Stated in my recollection, until September 2nd, 1915, that I
have ever expressed any opinion, anywhere, at any time prior
to this trial, that Leo M. Frank was guilty. I do not remember;
I never had any prejudice against the said Leo M. Frank, and I
never had any fixed opinion, or entertained any kind of opinion
of the merits of the case until I heard the evidence; and I
qualified as a juror with an unbiased mind, and with a disposi-
tion to readily yield and conform to the evidence, and to be con-
trolled absolutely by the law and the evidence; that I did not
know M. Johenning, one of the jurors in the case of the State
vs. Leo M. Frank, until we were empanelled and sworn in the
case; I do not recall that I ever saw him before. I did not ob-
serve the conduct and the deportment of the said Johenning during
the entire twenty nine days that we were together as jurors; he
did not say or do anything during that entire time that enabled
me to know how he stood on the issue; he did not give vent, so
far as I saw or know, to any expression indicating any bias, or
prejudice for or against the defendant, Leo M. Frank; so far
as I was able to judge from his conduct and deportment, said M.
Johenning was an upright, honest, fair, prudent, impartial and
conscientious juror; imbued with only one idea and purpose, namely
the ascertainment of the truth, under the evidence and law as
given in charge by the court; the same is true of each
and every other juror on the panel; that I did not at any time
while a juror hear any cheering, and no applause, excepting open
court, which was publicly taken notice of and reproved by the
court. I did not know that there had been any cheering of any-
body connected with the case, or that there had been any cheering in
any way growing out of the Frank case; I did not hear anybody
say that there had been any cheering until after the verdict
was rendered, and I did not hear any myself at any time,
until after the verdict was rendered, when I did hear about two or
three minutes after the verdict had been read, and while
the jury was being polled, cheering on the