>> will the defendant please rise? >> we, the jury, find the defendant... ...not guilty of the charge of the indictment. [ audience murmuring ] >> i said go. >> it's hard to believe that bass reeves was acquitted by a mostly white jury. but one of the things that came out during the trial was that it was unlikely a man who was trying to kill the cook would then expend so much energy trying to save him. >> though judge isaac parker is remembered as the legendary hanging judge, the truth is, out of more than 13,000 cases, he sends just 79 felons to the gallows. given this, judge parker could more appropriately