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John T. Raulston was the judge in the Scopes trial.
Scopes broke the law by teaching evolution.
John Thomas Scopes was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925 for violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools. He was tried in a case known as the Scopes Trial.
In 1925, John Scopes, a high school science teacher, intentionally violated the State's Butler Act, which was a law put into effect to keep teachers from teaching about evolution in public schools. The trial was a publicity stunt.
The Monkey Trial.