Tom Robinson Trial In To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a touching novel that takes us through the childhood of the main character Miss Jean Louise, more known as Scout throughout the story. We get a sense of what her daily life was like, along with several small yet impressionable side stories of which include her father Atticus Finch, whom is a layer, taking up a very controversial case.
In this case Mr. Finch is on the defendant's side, Tom Robinson, who is being accused of raping the daughter of a very notoriously known family in town. Despite his very accurate and eye-opening arguments, Mr. Finch is not able to convince the jury that his defendant is indeed not guilty. Tom Robinson’s guilty verdict was a result made not of hard and accurate proof, but one of extreme racism

Lee Ewell’s eye account, brought to court that Tom was indeed the man who beat and raped her. Under oath she spoke blatant lies of what happened to her the night of the crime. Through the defendant's and prosecutor’s arguments even a child could see plain as day who was the culprit in this situation, and it was not Tom.
Mr. Ewell was the man who beat his daughter, that much was made clear to the reader with details throughout the trial, but most of the spectators and all of the jury in the courtroom were just as guilty of a crime as he was, if not even more than so. These white men and women found themselves to be royalty compared to any other colored person which therefore led them to charge an innocent man with a crime he did not commit. Since Mayella and her family are all white, the people who support her only do so because of their self appointed superiority.
Most of the people in the society and time setting already believed every colored person to be terrible, so to the jury and the victim, Tom was no exception. Mayella can get away with lying because anything she says will only fuel the fire of racism that the jury and her prosecution side