How Did The Tom Robinson Trial

Have you ever heard anything about an innocent man who was accused of raping a 19 year old girl. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee states how people were mistreading colored people. First, Mayella and her father accused Tom Robinson of “raping Mayella”, then Tom Robinson is called guilty without any evidence of a doctor exam of rape, and how they shoot Tom Robinson 17 times when he tries to escape by climbing a fence.

Mr. Ewell accused Tom Robinson of raping his 19 year old daughter. Tom Robinson was in court, with Atticus as his layer, for “raping” Mayella. Lee states the court interrogations. Mayella was asked a lot of questions and she didn’t have answers to all of them, like right here, “ “Or didn’t you scream until you saw your father in the window? You didn’t think to scream until then, did you?” No answer. “Did you scream first at the father instead of Tom Robinson? Was that it? No answer.” (251). She struggled with her answers too. She seemed like as if she was under a lot of pressure.

Tom Robinson was declared guilty and there wasn’t even a doctor exam that said that Mayella was raped. Lee states “ I shut my eyes. Judge Taylor was polling the jury: “Guilty...guilty...guilty...guilty…” I peeked at Jem: his hands were white from gripping the balcony separate stb between them” (282). There was hardly any evidence of anything the Ewells were saying but their own