PHILIP NASH, Sworn In For The Defendant, 123rd To Testify

Philip Nash, 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)
Philip Nash, a telephone-company employee from Ridgewood, New Jersey, testified that he had known Leo M. Frank for four years while both were classmates at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Nash declared Frank’s general character was good.
This testimony was offered to extend Frank’s impeccable reputation to his pre-Cornell, pre-Atlanta student days in New York, presenting the sworn endorsement of a professional peer who had studied alongside him daily—further countering the State’s portrait of a lifelong moral degenerate by showing Frank was respected by classmates at yet another prestigious technical institute.