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The presiding judge, John T. Raulston, was accused of being biased towards the prosecution and frequently clashed with Darrow.

At the outset of the trial, Raulston quoted Genesis and the Butler Act.

He also warned the jury not to judge the merit of the law ( which would become the focus of the trial ) but on the violation of the act, which he called a ' high misdemeanor.

' The jury foreman himself was unconvinced of the merit of the Act but he acted, as did most of the jury, on the instructions of the judge.