1079 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION.

I could not detect the hymen from a digital and ocular examination. Ordinary normal menses would produce congestion of the blood vessels in the womb. The blood, flowing over the hymen, I think would produce a little inflammation at the hymen, but if the hymen was broken down, I don’t know that menstruation would have any affect upon the hymen. If the menstruation was about off, then I would say that any undue excitement might produce the flow again, or increase the flow that was already there. The contents of this bottle didn’t (Exhibit “G”—State), stay in the stomach very long.

RE-CROSS EXAMINATION.

I wouldn’t undertake to say how long that cabbage (Exhibit “G-1”—State) 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 a cord being wound around her neck. The bruise around the eye was caused by some blunt instrument, because it didn’t show the degree of contusion that would have been produced by a hard instrument. The outside 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 wheaten bread. It had progressed very slightly toward 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 have some cabbage here from two normal persons. Here was some meal taken out of cabbage and wheaten bread by two men of normal stomach, and contents taken out within an hour. We found there was very little cabbage left. 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, completely detached in places, blood vessels were dilated immediately beneath the