<P> In the small town of Clanton , in fictional Ford County , Mississippi , a ten - year - old African - American girl named Tonya Hailey is viciously raped and beaten by two redneck white supremacists , James `` Pete '' Willard and Billy Ray Cobb . Tonya is later found and rushed to the hospital while Pete and Billy Ray are heard bragging at a roadside bar about their crime . Tonya 's distraught and outraged father , Carl Lee Hailey , consults his friend Jake Brigance , a white attorney who had previously represented Hailey 's brother , on whether he could get Carl Lee acquitted if he killed the two men . Jake tells Carl Lee not to do anything stupid , but admits that if it had been his daughter , he would kill the rapists . Carl Lee is determined to avenge Tonya and , while Pete and Billy Ray are being led into holding after their bond hearing , he kills both men with an M - 16 . </P>
<P> In the small town of Clanton , in fictional Ford County , Mississippi , a ten - year - old African - American girl named Tonya Hailey is viciously raped and beaten by two redneck white supremacists , James `` Pete '' Willard and Billy Ray Cobb . Tonya is later found and rushed to the hospital while Pete and Billy Ray are heard bragging at a roadside bar about their crime . Tonya 's distraught and outraged father , Carl Lee Hailey , consults his friend Jake Brigance , a white attorney who had previously represented Hailey 's brother , on whether he could get Carl Lee acquitted if he killed the two men . Jake tells Carl Lee not to do anything stupid , but admits that if it had been his daughter , he would kill the rapists . Carl Lee is determined to avenge Tonya and , while Pete and Billy Ray are being led into holding after their bond hearing , he kills both men with an M - 16 . </P>
when does the movie a time to kill take place
when does the movie a time to kill take place
Ford County , Mississippi
Ford County , Mississippi