Word: chambliss
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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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...