1385 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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order to collect the reward, it was necessary for him to go right ahead and do what he (Craven) told him to do, and the said Albert McKnight admits that he was weak enough to follow said Craven's instructions and do what he was told by him.

Defendant further shows that, on the trial, the defendant claimed an alibi and, as a part of his claim, introduced evidence showing that he left the pencil factory about one o'clock on April 26th, took a street car to his home, where he arrived about one twenty (1:20) took dinner with his family and left home for the factory at about 3 o'clock; that the state relied strongly on the testimony of the said Albert McKnight to break down the defendant's alleged claim of alibi, and that the said McKnight testified at the trial that between one and two o'clock on April 26th, he was at the home of the defendant and that the defendant came in close to one thirty o'clock; that the defendant did not eat any dinner, stayed at home about 5 or 10 minutes and then went out and caught a car.

Defendant further shows that the evidence of Albert McKnight at the trial was also strongly relied on by the Solicitor General as corroborative of the affidavit of Minola McKnight introduced by the state, said affidavit being known as "state's exhibit 'J'" reference to which is here made, as is fully set forth herein.

Defendant further shows that the state introduced in evidence an affidavit of Minola McKnight, obtained after her arrest and incarceration in the jail of Fulton County, as follows to-wit;

"Sunday Miss Lucile said to me Beig that Frank did not rest so good Saturday night, she said he was drunk and would not let her sleep with him and she said she slept on the floor, on the rug by the bed, because Mr. Frank was drinking. Miss Lucile said Sunday that Mr. Frank told her Saturday night that he was in trouble and that he did not know the reason why he would murder. He told his wife to get his pistol and let him kill himself. I heard Miss Lucile say that to Mrs. Beig and it got away with Mrs. Beig mighty bad. She did not know what to think.