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Show "school teacher mustfacejury GRAND JURY INDICTS TENNESSEE TENNES-SEE MAN FOR TEACHING OF EVOLUTION Case Is First Of Its Kind Ever To Find Way To Courts; Many Pledge Support To The Prosecution Dayton, Tenn. John T. Scopea, hiKh Behool science teacher, was in-dialed in-dialed by a Rhea county grand jury here on a charge of teaching evolution evolu-tion In a public school in violation of the Tennessee law. The Judge set July 10, at Dayton, for the trial. The grand Jury was assembled in special sesKion to pass on the case presented to it as a result of a preliminary prelim-inary hearing two weeks ago, when three Justices of the peace held ticopes for grand jury action. Judge John T. Roulston, presiding, charged the jury on the law of the theory of evolution as It shall be taught in the public schools of Tennessee, the first time such a charge has been delivered deliv-ered in a Tennessee court. Judge J. D. Ralston, in charging the grand jury In criminal court here told the jurors that he considered a violation of the Tennessee statute against teaching of the theory of evolution evo-lution in public schools as a high misdemeanor mis-demeanor regardless of the question of constitutionality or policy. He was referring to the case of J. L. Scopes of the Dayton public schools, arrested on charge of violating a Tennessee Ten-nessee law. Dayton, Ohio. The American Association As-sociation for the Advancement of Science has joined actively m the Tennessee evolution case, it was announced an-nounced as a Rhea county grand jury assembled to determine whether John T. Scopes, science teacher, should be Indicted for violation of the state law which prohibited teaching of evolution evolu-tion in the schools. Dr. George W. Rappleyar, who instigated in-stigated the court test, announced that Professor H. I. Pupin, president of the association and member of Columbia university faculty, has pledged support to the defense, promising prom-ising a "scientific expert adviser" for the trial. Dr. Rappleyear also quoted quot-ed Dr. Wilson Davis, editor of Science Service of Washington, as saying, "We are coming to your support, 14,300 strong." |
