A lot of people use the Trial of Socrates as an argument against majority rule and criticize the Athenian jury which gave the verdict of Guilty, 280 against 221, supposedly on the charges of blasphemy and corrupting the youth. I.F. Stone, in his 1979 New York Times piece, clarified what they could have probably meant by “corruption” in that context.
1 tl;dr
Aeschines mentioned the trial of Socrates after just 54 years (in 345 BCE) in another trial brought against him by Timarchus & Demosthenes (that Aeschines won) to convince the jurors by saying, “Did you put to death Socrates the sophist, fellow citizens, because he was shown to have been the teacher of Critias, one of the Thirty who put down the democracy.” Critias, who was the foremost amongst the Thirty Tyrants who killed 5% of Athens’ population in just 8 months of their rule.
2 IF Stone’s 1979 NYT article
I’m attaching the entire article for those who can’t access it on NYT’s archive because of the paywall.
3 IF Stone’s book
He had also published a book on the same topic but I haven’t read that yet.