Evidence To Identify The Guilty Of Mr. Gilmer's Speech

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Mr. Gilmer’s Speech Gentlemen, the plaintiff has enough evidence to identify the guilty of Tom Robinson now, and I would like to use my remaining time to remind you the essence of this case briefly. First of all, our defendant, Tom Robinson, is already known that he was given thirty days once for disorderly conduct as he confirmed because he fought with another man, and in that fight knife as a lethal weapon appeared. So we can see that this nigger’s nature is fierce and cruel. Let us think, as a cruel nigger with previous conviction, Tom Robinson is possible to do other things to hurt other people, he is likely to rape a young lady led by his desire. Secondly, Tom Robinson mentioned that he went inside the fence several times to do works

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