
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.

as District Attorney Andrew J. Griffin

as Sybil Hale

as Professor Robert Perry Hale

as Michael Gleason

as Bill Brock

as Mary Clay

as Imogene Mayfield

as Joe Turner

as Detective Laneart

as Tump Redwine

as Carlisle P. Buxton

as Mrs. Hale (as Elizabeth Risdon)

as Jim Timberlake

as Detective Pindar

as Mrs. Mountford

as Governor Mountford

as Harmon

as Mrs. Clay (as Sybil Harris)

as Shattuck Clay

as Luther Clay

as Ransom Clay

as Drugstore Clerk

as Reporter

as Judge Moore

as Confederate Soldier

as Confederate Soldier

as Confederate Soldier

as Mob Leader Outside Governor's Mansion (uncredited)

as Dougherty - Publisher (uncredited)

as Cop Guarding Hale (uncredited)