Judge James Edwin Horton
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Apr 22, 1976 · Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys: Directed by Fielder Cook. With Arthur Hill, Ellen Barber, Paul Benjamin, Larry Butts. In 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women.
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Judge Horton was born January 4, 1878, the son of James Horton, Sr. and Emily Donelson. His mother was the great-niece of former President of the United States Andrew Jackson. His family bible shows he was born in Limestone County, AL. At some point during his childhood he moved to Athens, Alabama .
In 1976, NBC aired a TV movie called Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys, based on the case. In 1998, Court TV produced a television documentary on the Scottsboro trials for its Greatest Trials of All Time series. A premiere screening and discussion was held at Columbia University on July 21, 1998 in conjunction with the New York NAACP.
Feb 22, 2018 · The second round of trials began in the circuit court in Decatur, Alabama, 50 miles west of Scottsboro, under Judge James Horton. One of the boys’ accusers, Ruby Bates, recanted her initial ...
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Time, like the Tennessee, flows on. The heroism of Judge James Horton and the "Scottsboro Boys" trial that brought him fame have receded from public memory. The central characters of the legal battle are all dead. The two women whose accusation of rape against nine black teenagers started it all died in the early 1980's.
Horton gave up pursuit of a medical degree for a law degree, which he received from Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee in 1899. He entered private practice, but left it in 1910 for a six-year career in the Alabama legislature. In 1922, he was elected circuit judge. When the Scottsboro cases were transferred to his Decatur courtroom in ...
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Mar 20, 2008 · The announcement that Judge James Horton would preside at the retrial of the Scottsboro Boys was received favorably. The Limestone Democrat, Horton's hometown, praised his unusually equable nature, great legal ability and fairness. Horton would give the foreign defense no reason to complain, wrote the paper's editor.
