0702 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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dead at 3 A.M. with a rope around her neck indented and the flesh
sticking up, bruised on the eye, blood on the back of her head, the
tongue sticking out, blue skin, every indication that she came to
her death from strangulation, her head down. rigor mortis had been
on her twenty hours, the blood had settled in the back, more the gravity
would naturally take it in the face, she is embalmed, formaldehyde
is used and injected in the various cavities of the body, including
the stomach, a pathologist takes her stomach a week or ten days
after, finds cabbage of that size (State's Exhibit G.) in the
stomach, finds starch granules undigested, and finds in the stomach
the pyloris is still closed that there is nothing in the first
six feet of the small intestines; that there is every indication
that digestion had been progressing favorably, and finds thirty two
degrees hydrochloric acid and if the pathologist capable and finds
that there was only combined hydrochloric acid and that there was
no abnormal condition of the stomach or the first six feet of the
intestines. I would say that the digestion of bread and cabbage was
stopped within an hour after they were eaten. That would not be a
wild guess in my opinion.
CROSS EXAMINATION. The bruises on the head, the evidences of strang
ulation and other injuries about the head are other possible
factors which must be taken into consideration. Anything which dis
turbs the circulation of the blood, or hinders the action of the
nerves controlling the stomach, especially the secretion, prevents
the development of the characteristics found in normal digestion
one hour after a meal. I mean by mechanical condition of the stomach,
no change in the size or thickness, or opening into the intestines,
or size or thickness of intestines. The test should be made with
absolute accuracy with these acids. The color test is generally
accepted. A man's eye has to be absolutely correct to make the color
test. The degree of acidity in a normal stomach varies from 30 to
45 degrees, according to the stomach and what is in it. The formal-
dehyde would make no change on the physical property on the pancreatic
juice found in the small intestine after death. There would be