Legal Opinion
Scopes v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided January 17, 1927PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Chiee Justice Green
delivered majority opinion; Judge Chambliss concurring opinion, and Justice Cook concurred; Judge Colin P. McKinney, opinion dissenting, and Judge Swiggart did not participate.
Scopes was convicted of a violation of chapter 27 of the Acts of 1925 for that he did teach in the public schools of Rhea county a certain theory that denied the story of the divine creation of man, as taught in the Bible, and did teach instead thereof that man had descended from a lower order of animals. After a verdict of guilty by the jury, the trial judge imposed a fine of $100', and Scopes…
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