0332 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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to make it under the law. It is not made under oath and he is not sub-
ject to examination or cross-examination. It is with you as to how
much of it you will believe, or how little or it. You may go to the
extent, if you see fit, of believing it in preference to the sworn
testimony in the case.

In the event, gentlemen, you have a reasonable doubt from the
evidence, or the evidence and the statement together, or either :s to
the defendant's guilt as charged, then give the prisoner the benefit
of that doubt and acquit him; and in the event you do acquit him the
form of your verdict would be: "We, the jury, find the defendant not
guilty." As honest jurors do your utmost to reach the truth from
the evidence and statement as you have heard it here, then let your
verdict speak it.

Examined and approved as my
charge in this case. Nov. 1, 1913

(signed) J. S. Koen
J. S. C. 3d. Jt. Ct.

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