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)
