The Archive · 1927

Teaching of Evolution

Echo of a Famous Trial in the United States New York, Jan. 16.

The notable trial of July 1925, when John Scopes was fined $100 and costs for teaching evolution local high school Fas been alled by the appeal decision the Supreme Court at Nashville, "which, while finding, wit bue dissentient, that the Statute under which Scopes' was convicted was constitutional, agreed that the verdict should be quashed as a fine exceeding $50 must be imposed by the Jury; not by the Judge.

Scopes" lawyer announced to-day that the appeal would be cam the U, S. Supreme Court to "decide whether any sect or creed may im-Pose dogmatic opinion on the educa anal system of the Stata."—Reuter,

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