When the twelve members of the Robinson vs. Ewell case left the silently still courtroom, they were faced with a gigantic decision. A decision everyone believed they already knew the answer to before the first word was spoken. There after the audience began to realize this decision was in serious question. This a decision not only had a mans life hanging in the balance, but also the everyday life in Macomb might be hanging in the balance.
             The trial began with prosecuting attorney Mr. Gilmer calling for the testimony of sheriff Heck Tate. Mr Tate stated that on the night of November the twenty- first, he was just leaving the office when Mr. Ewell burst into his office claiming, "Some nigger'd raped my Mayella." When asked by defense attorney for the case, Mr. Finch, what Mr. Tate found at the scene, Tate answered, "(I) found her lying on the floor in the middle of the front room, the one on the right as you go in. She was pretty well beat up, but I Heaved her to her feet and she washed her face in a bucket in the corner and she said she was all right. I asked her who hurt her and she said it was Tom Robinson."
             Mr. Finch's cross examination came with speculation as to Miss Ewell's sustained injuries. Mr. Finch asked Mr. Tate which side of her face had a black eye and after several moments of thought for Mr. Tate, he stated that it was her right eye. Also, Mr. Finch was building his case with the lack of medical evidence that in fact Miss Ewell had in fact been taken advantage of. He did so by questioning Mr. Tate repeated times in his cross examination weather or not a doctor had examined Miss Ewell, and his case had a particle foundation when Mr. Tate claimed no doctor was called. Over all Mr. Tate's testiomny accounted for the legall particulars of the case as far as positions of injuries sustained and weather a doctor had been called.
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