I M HAMILTON, Sworn In For The Defendant, 90th To Testify

V. S. Cooper, W. T. Mitchell, O. A. Nix, Samuel Craig, B. L. Patterson, Robert Craig, Ed Craig, T. L. Ambrose, J. P. Bird, J. H. Patrick, and I. M. Hamilton, witnesses 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)
Eleven long-time residents of Gwinnett and Walton Counties—the region where C. B. Dalton lived before fleeing Monroe—testified in unison:

They had known Dalton for years.
His general character for truth and veracity was bad.
They would not believe him on oath.

This eleven-man character assassination—delivered by farmers, merchants, and neighbors who watched Dalton grow up—buried the State’s key “immoral factory” witness.
Dalton’s Monroe past—chain-gang scars, liquor indictments, and church expulsion—followed him to Atlanta and blew up in open court.
The jury heard eleven voices from Dalton’s own backyard declare: “He’s a liar. Always was.”
Dalton’s entire testimony—women, whiskey, and weekend trysts—collapsed under the weight of hometown truth.