Clarence Norris and Charlie Weems, two of nine black young men accussed of the assualt and rape of Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, are convicted and sentenced to death in the first trial of The Scottsboro Case. One notable comparison between this case and the fictional trial of Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird is the fact that neither trial provided medical evidence to prove a rape occured. In Lee's novel, Bob Ewell deliberately avoids medical examination. In the Scottsboro Case, doctors concluded no rape had taken place, but the youths were convicted anyway. Likewise, in both cases the community was reluctant to provide lawyers for the defendants. A year later, this ruling will be upheld by the Alabama Supreme Court, but overturned by the Supreme Court of the United States.