Tennessee v. Scopes
Significance, The Circus Comes To Dayton, Evolution On Trial, Darrow Deflates Bryan, Teaching Evolutionism
Plaintiff
State of Tennessee
Defendant
John Thomas Scopes
Chief Prosecutors
William Jennings Bryan; A.T. Stewart, Attorney General of Tennessee
Chief Defense Lawyers
Clarence Darrow, Arthur Garfield Hays, Dudley Field Malone
Judge
John T. Raulston
Place
Dayton, Tennessee
Date of Decision
21 July 1925
Decision
Guilty; however, neither side won the case because the decision was reversed on a technicality involving the judge's error in imposing a fine that legally could only be set by the jury.
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Sources
Spaid, Elizabeth Levitan. "Scopes Revisited: South Puts Creationism Into Classroom."The Christian Science Monitor, 8 March 1996
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