HARRY LEWIS, Sworn In For The Defendant, 125th To Testify

Harry Lewis, witness for the Defendant in rebuttal, at the Trial of Leo Frank in the Fulton County Superior Court of Atlanta, Georgia, in 1913 (Testimony Portion From July 28 - August 21, 1913; Closing Arguments August 21-25, 1913)
Harry Lewis, a Brooklyn attorney and former Assistant District Attorney, testified that he had known Leo M. Frank for twelve years and had been his next-door neighbor until Frank moved South. Lewis declared Frank’s general character was good.
This testimony was offered to push Frank’s impeccable reputation back to his pre-Atlanta life in New York, presenting the sworn endorsement of a high-ranking former prosecutor who had observed Frank daily in a residential setting—directly countering the State’s portrait of a lifelong moral degenerate by showing that even a legal professional who once prosecuted criminals vouched unreservedly for Frank’s upright character.