Scottsboro Argumentative Essay: Rough Draft Crimes happen everyday. Many criminals are incarcerated for their actions. Everyone has a different opinion on certain topics, everyone is entitled to their opinion as long as they know the true facts behind it. During the Scottsboro cases in the 1930’s, there were more people who thought of the accused to be guilty than innocent because of the unjust racism that had become a popular concept. Olen Montgomery was not guilty of raping 2 women. Obviously, he was guilty of hoboing, but he should not be convicted for the assault of 2 women who could be lying about their side of the story. Just 2 hours after the train ride, the 2 women were examined by a doctor to search for injuries from the event they had explained. The examiner was expecting to find many serious injuries. On the contrary, “he had only found small bruises on one of their backs” (Linder “Bridges”). These bruises possibly could have been unrelated to the event because the women had spent the previous night in a house with other men and presumed to have intercourse(“Facts Sheet”). Thus, the women's side of the story had started to become questionable. Furthermore, Montgomery did have physical …show more content…
Montgomery had been seated in a different train car. To hide the fact that he had been hoboing, he had been alone in one of the passenger cars, thus avoided contact with the women for the rest of the trip until he came across his arresting officer. Not only did they travel in different locations, there cars had been on the opposite ends of each other (“Diagram”). The women had not even seen Montgomery for the whole train ride, in which where they had been asked to identify the men, only Ruby Bates could not recognize him (Linder, “Trials”). Undoubtedly, Olen had been thrown in a trap where there was no way out because of the racism that had been a popular concept in Alabama at the