| Summary: | The nine "Scottsboro Boys" had ben falsely accused of raping two white women on a train that was stopped in Jackson County, Alabama, in 1931. At the trial, defendant Haywood Patterson was represented by Samuel S. Leibowitz, George W. Chamlee, and Joseph R. Brodsky, who called the following witnesses: R. S. Turner, Dallas Ramsey, Norris Payne, Beatrice Maddox, G. W. Chamlee, Willie Roberson, Olen Montgomery, Ozie Powell, Andy Wright, Eugene Williams, Haywood Patterson, Percy Ricks, Dr. Edward E. Reisman, Lester Carter, E. L. Lewis, May Jones, and Ruby Bates. Representing the prosecution were Attorney General Thomas E. Knight, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Seay Lawson, Wade Wright, and H. G. Bailey, who called the following witnesses for the state: Victoria Price, Dr. R. R. Bridges, W. H. Hill, Tom Rouseau, Lee Adams, Ory Dobbins, Arthur Woodall, Dr. Cary Walker, Dr. J. H. Hamil, and Vertus Frost.
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