"Nine Negro Brutes"

3. Offense / Any criminal charge, which is punishable by the death penalty
4. of Counsel / If defendant cannot afford a lawyer, requires that the government appoint one or pay the defendants legal expenses
5. / The result of a criminal trial, which the defendant has been found guilty of a crime
6. Boys / Nine black teenagers accused of rape in Alabama in 1931
7. Convictions / Persons who are in fact innocent by who have been wrongly convicted by a jury or other court of law
10. Horton / Named to judge the second trial of the Scottsboro defendants in Decatur, Alabama.
11. / The government attorney charging and trying the case against a person accused of a crime
15. Process Clause / Those procedures that effectively guarantee individual rights in the face of criminal prosecution and those procedures that are fundamental rules for fair and orderly legal proceedings
16. / Lawyer hired by the International Labor Defense to defend the young black men accused of raping two young women

1. Prince / 21 year old woman who accused the Scottsboro Boys of raping her
2. v. Alabama / Prosecution agreed that the 13-year-old boy was too young for the death penalty
5. / Fight or argument
8. / One without sufficient income to afford a lawyer for defense in a criminal case
9. To take by legal authority especially under a writ
11. v. Alabama / Case which held that an African-American defendant is denied due process rights if the jury pool excludes African-Americans
12. Amendment / The right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed
13. / A person who supports or believes in the principles of communism
14. Bates / Was seventeen years old at the time she accused three black young men of raping her