Guilty: The Leo Frank Trial

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Being a different race and being on trial seems hard enough, but being the murder as well, seems to bring more problems to the table, the Leo Frank trial is about a Jewish man named Leo Frank who killed a woman named Mary Phagan at work. The major problem with this court case is, he is a Jewish man on trial and it ended up causing Jewish racism with the community. People believed that he was found guilty because of him being a Jew. There are other reasons to why Leo Frank was found guilty was not just because he was Jewish. If people would have listened to the trial, they might have looked at the trial differently, they would have realized, Leo Frank is in fact, guilty and it was not just because he was a Jew and there was even convincing evidence.
During the trial the watchman gave the jury very convincing evidence that Leo was guilty. Leo had ended up asking the watchman if he could come at 4PM, later than usual (Huie, Bradford). If Frank wanted to be …show more content…
People claimed he was seen washing red stains out of a shirt. Which later then, he told them that he had helped Frank get “rid” of the body (Dinnerstein, Leonard). If Jim was the killer, then he would have had to of killed at the entrance because he sat there all day (Huie, Bradford). It is said that Mary was killed on the 2nd floor because she went to receive her pay of $1.20 from Leo (Dinnerstein, Leonard). If Leo had planned to kill Mary, then it would make sense for him to kill her when she was going to get her pay from him.Plus, people normally plan how they kill someone before they do because they normally do not want to get caught. If Jim wanted to kill her, then he would have had to of done it right when she walked in because he sat in the same place all day and didn’t move (Dinnerstein, Leonard). Jim sat in the place everyday, he would have had to go all the way up to the 2nd floor just to get
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