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Show FRANK LOSES LEGAL FIGHT. Hghest Tribunal Refuses to Reopen, Famous Georgia Case. Washington. The supreme court held on Monday that the state o( Georgia had denied Leo M. Frank nq right under the federal constitution in sentencing him to death for the mun der of Mary Phagan, an Atlanta facS tory girl. The court affirmed the action o( the United States district court for northern Georgia refusing to reloaisq Frank on a writ of habeas corpus, Justice Jus-tice Pitney announcing the opinion. Justice Holmes delivered a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Hughes con-curred. con-curred. This decision, it Is believed here, exhausts all means of fighting in tha courts to save Frank's life. |