One night a group of white men started a fight with the black men in the train, which led to them getting kicked off. Later on in the case it is clearly proven that the white men started the fight because both of the men have different stories and one of them finally admits to starting it. .
After the white men were kicked off of the train it was ridden to the next stop somewhere in Alabama. Upon arriving at the station the black men and the white women were arrested for vagrancy. While talking to the police the women accused all of the black men of raping them. These women were known prostitutes of the area but their word was still taken over the black men who were accused. Twelve days later the trial took place. There were many witnesses that held bias towards the black men. One acquaintance of the women was a white lady who refused to go along with the lies that .
the white women were telling. One physician stated that two of the men were so badly crippled that they were incapable of committing such a crime. This was almost exactly like the trial of Tom Robinson where Robinson had a crippled arm and seemed incapable of doing the crime that he was convicted of. One of the men that were accused was blind and the other couldn't walk without assistance. Regardless, 3 days later; 8 of the 9 men were sentenced to death even though the witnesses all felt that the white women were lying. This trial was appealed and put into the Supreme Court because the defendants were not supplied with sufficient lawyers. In Tom Robinson's case the stage seemed to be set exactly the same. A white woman was accusing him of a crime in which there was more evidence that proved he didn't commit it than there was to prove him guilty. Even though he was physically incapable of inflicting the wounds that Mayella claimed she had sustained from him due to a childhood injury that left him with only the use of his left hand, he was convicted.