Our town of Maycomb was rocked by the Tom Robinson case in court. It was a heavily controversial case with Atticus Finch defending Tom Robinson against the Ewell family who claimed Tom raped Bob Ewell's daughter, Mayella Ewell. the event was hosted at our local courthouse run by John Taylor. Atticus put up a good case for Tom Robinson and tried to put the blame on Mayella's bruises on none other then Bob Ewell himself. The jury was not all decided when it was time to decide and it took over 3 hours to come up with a verdict on the case. It was decided that Tom should be found guilty of rape and sent to death in the end. Bob Ewell still didn't seem satisfied because Atticus pushed all the accusations towards him. It would seem that the jury found Tom guilty because they thought there was just not enough proof supporting Tom's defense. Atticus seemed displeased by the result of the case aswell and he even had his kids watching him from the balcony. This was a pretty hopeless case to begin with and the Finches had to deal with a lot of scrutiny from the public about it.
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