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...Birmingham, Ala. Sheriff Fred H. McDuff received a court warrant from nearby Cullman County calling for the arrest of one John D. Chambliss, who "gave a challenge in words and in person to fight in combat a duel with John Stevens and Erwin Stevens and to fight a duel with a deadly weapon, to wit, a pistol.'' Swearer of the warrant was Farmer Erwin Stevens...
...judges for the first argument will be Hon. Alexander W. Chambliss, Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, who will preside, Hon. Hugh D. McLellan, United States District Judge for Massachusetts, and Hon. William C. Coleman, United States District Judge for Maryland. The second argument judges, who will sit November 23, will be Hon. Frank E. Stanwood, Judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri, Hon. Howard L. Bevis, Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, and Hon. Fred T. Field, Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts...
With Justice McKinney dissenting, Justices Chambliss and Cook and Chief Justice Green decided that the anti-evolution statute was constitutionally sound. All four were unanimous that Teacher Scopes was not guilty, as declared by the jury at Dayton, since the trial judge (John T. Raulston) had been in error in fining Teacher Scopes $100 (only a jury can impose a fine greater than $50 in Tennessee and the Scopes jury fixed no fine) ; that the only way to correct this error was through a retrial; but that "all of us agree that nothing is to be gained by prolonging...