0417 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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Q. (By Mr. Arnold) had been in the child's stomach. A blow on
the back of the head might blacken one or both eyes.

RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION

I think excitement could produce flow from the uterus. I
don't think it would cause any discoloration of the walls of
the vagina except from the blood.

DR. H. F. HARRIS, sworn for the State.

I am a practicing physician. I made an examination of the
body of Mary Phagan on May 5th. On removing the skull I found
there was no actual break of the skull, but a little hemorrhage
under the skull, corresponding to the point where the blow had
been delivered, which shows that the blow was hard enough to have
made the person unconscious. This wound on the head was not
sufficient to have caused death. I think beyond any question she
came to her death from strangulation from this cord being wound
around her neck. The bruise around the eye was caused by a
soft instrument, because it didn't show the degree of contusion
that would have been produced by a hard instrument. The out-
side cuticle of the skin wasn't broken. The injury to the eye
and scalp were caused before death. I examined the contents of
the stomach, finding 160 cubic centimeters of cabbage and biscuit,
or wheat and bread. It had progressed very slightly towards
digestion. It is impossible for one to say absolutely how long
this cabbage had been in the stomach, but I feel confident that
she was either killed or received the blow on the back of the
head within a half hour after she finished her meal. I made an
examination of the privates of Mary Phagan. I found no spermatozoa.
On the walls of the vagina there was evidence of
violence of some kind. The epithelium was pulled loose, com-
pletely detached in places. Blood vessels were dilated.