法律英语案例分析.ppt

编辑课件 编辑课件 编辑课件 The Trial of Sheriff Joseph Shipp et al.: An Account 1.THE FACT 2.THE TRIAL AND APPEALS 3.THE LYNCHING OF ED JOHNSON 4.TRIAL IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THE FACT The Shipp trial has its roots in a rape that took place on a dark January evening in 1906 the St. Elmo district of Chattanooga. On January 23, 1906,Twenty-one-year old Nevada Taylor, on her way home from her bookkeeping job in downtown Chattanooga, is raped by a black man with a soft, kind voice shortly after 6:30 p.m. in St. Elmo Cemetery.Sheriff Joseph Shipp directs a search for the rapist, witnesses,