Scopes was charged with having taught from a chapter on evolution to a class at a Tennessee high school on
May 5, 1925 in violation of the
Butler Act. He was arrested, but not detained.
The Scopes trial decision effectively overturned Tennessee's The Butler Act from the earlier the very same year (these decidely less-spoiled American citizens wasted no time in correcting the bullshit plate put on their table courtesy of politicians) and has since been used as a precedent in many court cases throughout the United States and in the Supreme Court.