Career
He was a native of Greensboro, Alabama. Knight was the prosecutor in the Scottsboro trials in the 1930s. He represented Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, who were wrongly accusing nine black boys of rape.
Knight was portrayed by actor Bill Sage in the 2001 movie Heavens Fall, opposing Timothy Hutton, starring as Scottsboro Boys defense attorney Samuel Leibowitz.
Knight was portrayed by actor Ken Kercheval in the 1976 television movie Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys.