In To Kill a Mockingbird, who has the strongest testimony: Heck Tate, Bob Ewell, Mayella Ewell, or Tom Robinson? Base you answer on the actual...

Two of the witnesses mentioned--Mayella and Tom--offered
riveting testimony during the trial. Mayella's appearance was a dramatic one, and she
eventually stormed off the stand screaming at Atticus and the
jurors.

"...if
you fine fancy gentleman don't wanna do anything about it then you're all yellow
stinkin' cowards, stinkin' cowards, the lot of
you."

Of course, little of
Mayella's testimony was spoken truthfully, and she contradicted herself several
times.

  
"No, I don't recollect if he hit me. I mean, yes I do, he hit me."
   "Was
your last sentence your answer?"
   "Huh? Yes, he hit... I just don't
remember, I just don't
remember..."

If you are
asking whose testimony was the most honest and compelling, the answer would have to be
Tom. Although the reader is never told specifically what happened between Mayella and
Tom, we are allowed to judge for ourselves from the testimony given, and Tom's version
seems the most likely. He is portrayed as honest, humble and fearful of the position he
is in. Atticus' point that Tom's injured hand was incapable of choking or hitting
Mayella seems inarguable. Perhaps Tom's fear is expressed best when he explains to
Atticus why he ran from the Ewell house.

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"...if you was a nigger like me, you'd be scared,
too."