Mayella Ewell And Tom Robinson Trial

Men of the jury, we are here today to discuss the case of Mayella Ewell and Tom Robinson. On November 21, Tom Robinson allegedly raped Mayella Ewell when she demanded him to go inside her home to break up a chiffarobe for her, and as stated before Mayella had stated this is the first time she let Mr. Robinson into her home. When she let Tom Robinson in, he grabbed her from behind and took advantage of her while she screamed and did her best to fight him off. She ended up with finger marks around her neck and an injury to her right eye. Mr. Ewell testified that he witness the rape happen through the window, and he described the room as ‘slung around’ as if there was a fight. The rape would be a class B felony which results in a maximum sentence

Tom Robinson testifies that on November 21, Mayella asks for him to fix up a loose door, so he goes in to help her. When Tom Robinson was told to stand on a chair to retrieve a box on top of a chiffarobe Mayella had wrapped her arms around him and he jumped off the chair in fear and shock, so the only thing that was ‘slung around’ in that room was the chair Tom Robinson was once standing on. Afterwards Mayella had kissed him and Mr. Ewell had seen that through the window, so he yelled at Mayella calling her a whore and how he would kill Miss Mayella. And from what Mr. Robinson felt when repeating what Bob Ewell had said that day to miss Mayella, it seems to be clear that he never wanted to be the reason why Miss Mayella would have to deal with her fathers cruel actions. He wanted to help miss Mayella but never expected this would come from his

Tom Robinson is not guilty because of his obvious disability making him unable to do half of the things the victim claims he has done. As noted before Tom Robinson's left arm is completely useless to him after his accident at work, let alone it is a whole foot shorter than the other arm, if he were to punch Miss Mayella in the face with his right arm her injury should of most likely have been on her left eye, as in when you swing at a person with either or right or left you would almost always hit their opposite eye. Such as if you had struck someone's face with your left arm, you would most definitely hit their right eye much rather than if you struck them with your right arm, it just makes far more sense that way. Now people of the court, do you think Mr. Robinson is capable of doing such an action when it is so clear how useless his right arm is to him? Let that be my first point to why you should be able to see why the defendant, Tom Robinson should be decreed