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Examples Of Tom Robinson Trial In To Kill A Mockingbird

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In chapters 17 through 20 of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, we read the trial of Tom Robinson. He is on trial because Mayella Ewell accused him of raping her. Tom Robinson is innocent because the evidence supports his case, the defendant’s and witnesses’ testimonies are unreliable, and he doesn’t have any motivation to lie. There are a lot of passages in To Kill a Mockingbird that supports my reasoning.
One reason Tom Robinson is innocent is because the evidence supports his case. Mr. Tate says, “It was her right eye, Mr. Finch. I remember now, she was bunged up on that side of the face,” talking about which side Mayella was beat up on (Lee 225). This would mean that a left handed person would have beat her up and Atticus proves that
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