This question can be deceiving because there is a specific scene in the movie that shows Judge Taylor talking to Atticus on his front porch about taking the Tom Robinson case, but this does not explicitly happen in the book. The first time the reader knows anything about the case is in chapter nine when Scout tells Cecil Jacobs to take back his comment about Atticus defending "n*****s". Scout goes home and asks Atticus if it is true and he tells her about Tom Robinson and the case that will take place the following summer.
The only other reference in the book about Judge Taylor asking Atticus to be Tom Robinson's attorney is during Christmas time. Scout overhears her father talking to Uncle Jack about it, as follows:
"You know, I'd hope to get through life without a case of this kind, but John Taylor pointed at me and said, 'You're It'" (88).
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