TKAM

Today is the day the journey of the trial starts. As people filed in from everywhere like a mad house there was barely anywhere to sit. You could tell it was about to begin as it got silent and Heck Tate takes the stand to testify. As many of you know Mr. Bob Ewell has accused Tom Robinson of raping his daughter Mayella Ewell. Atticus Finch is defending Tom Robinson through this trial. Mr. Glimer is defending Bob Ewell. Our judge today is Judge Taylor. Now Everybody take your seats and lets begin. Mr. Heck the sheriff in town starts talking off about how he got a call from Mr. Bob Ewell saying quick come to my house some negro raped my daughter. She was laying in the middle of the floor beaten pretty well. So he went down to get Tom and she identified him as the one. While he is saying all that Atticus was questioning him why anybody didn't call a doctor since she was badly beat. Now Heck is describing her injuries Mayella was badly brusie beaten around the head and had a black eye on her right eye. It is Mr. Bob Ewell turn to testify now. Now many of you know the Ewell's as a very poor family that lives in the dumps and does not listen to the laws just does whatever they feel like doing. His side of the story started off when he was walking back from the woods he heard his daughter screaming. So he ran to the house look in the window and said he saw Tom having sexual intercourse with Mayella. Then Bob said her ran into the house but just as he was doing that Tom ran out. Or so he claims. Well Atticus thought his story sounded a little fishy so he asked Bob a couple of questions. First question was since he did all that running why didn't he run to get a doctor. But Bob just responed with it would be to expensive. Then Atticus wanted to know if he agreed with all the injuries Heck Tate was explaing and he did. And bob said he agreed with him. Atticus asked Bob if he could read and write surprisingly he said yes. Atticus was on a role here but no one knew where he was getting untill this happened. So he asked Bob to write his name down and the catch is Atticus pointed out that he writes with his left. You are proably wondering what does that have to do with anything. Well since she was beaten up on her right side that means someone lefthanded had have to had done it. So that concludes the trial for the first day there will be more to come I'm sure. We still have two more people to testify before the jury makes their final desion. It is going to be a close one.