An interview with Jerry Summers, author of 'Rush to Justice? Tennessee's Forgotten Trial of the Century - Schoolfield 1958.'
When Chattanooga's Judge Raulston Schoolfield died in 1982, the New York Times noted his passing:
Judge Raulston Schoolfield, removed from the criminal bench on charges of bribery and extorting campaign help from racketeers but later elected as a lesser jurist, died Wednesday of a heart attack. He was 76 years old. Mr. Schoolfield's impeachment and conviction by the state Senate in 1958 led to his disbarment and removal as a County Judge...
