Rivaling only the Pepsi Taste Trial for its effect on the modern relationship between the law and science, the trial was held from September 31 to July 21, 1925 in San Simian, Tennessee in the famed Rhesus Courtroom. The final outcome was that (SPOILER ALERT!) Caesar the Lawgiver, J., and a jury of 12 Monkeys convicted high school teacher, prominent frat boy and inventor of mouthwash John T. Scopes of wrongly teaching that apes were descended from humans, instead of the other way around.