0158 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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"I discovered, as I say, at that time, that our ideas about how
quickly cabbage digested were rather erroneous, and as I
remarked a moment ago, I observed that the stomach freed itself
of a mixture of cabbage and bread just about as quickly as we
only gave bread alone; the amount of recovery on the part of
the mucous membrane in the way of sufficient gastric juices
was about the same practically or probably a little bit more
recovery with cabbage.

"It is the only way I can get at it, it is the only real
knowledge I have on the subject in connection with the work
that was done in this particular instance here.

The witness Harris testified that from the state of the diges-
tion of the food found in the stomach of Mary Phagan he could
say she died in 30 or 40 minutes after her last meal of bread
and cabbage, over the objection above made and the further
objection that the witness could not give the result of other
and different experiments made 12 or 15 years ago upon persons
"whose stomach were not in a very good condition," and not
under the same circumstances and conditions to sustain and
bolster up the experiment made upon the stomach of Mary
Phagan, and to sustain his assertion that Mary Phagan died
from 30 to 40 minutes after she ate her last meal.

The Court overruled the objection and admitted the testimony
and in doing so, the court for the reasons indicated committed
prejudicial error.

19. Because the court erred in permitting the witness Dr.
H. F. Harris, to testify, over the objection of the defendant
made when the evidence was submitted, that the same was irrele-
vant and immaterial and that experts could not give
their opinions from individual and isolated experiments but must
answer from their knowledge of the science obtained from all
sources, that:

"Knowing the facts that cabbage would pass out of the sto
mach very quickly in a normal one, I ascertained her digestion
and as soon as I saw the cabbage in this case, I at once felt
75.