Wallace a wealthy landowner in Meriwether County, Georgia, has virtually unlimited power in the county, including having the sheriff under his control. When he murders a share cropper he thinks that he is powerful enough to get away with it. Because the act of murder took place in Coweta County, it is under the jurisdiction of the Coweta County sheriff who hunts the murderer without trepidation.
Johnny Cash
as Lamar Potts
Andy Griffith
as John Wallace
Earl Hindman
as J.H. Potts
Ed Van Nuys
as Huddleston
Robert Schenkkan
as Wilson Turner
Jo Henderson
as Josephine Wallace
Daniel Keyes
as Elzie Hancock
Danny Nelson
as Sheriff Hardy Collier
Norman Matlock
as Albert Brooks
Brent Jennings
as Robert Lee Gates
June Carter Cash
as Mayhayley Lancaster
James Neale
as A. L. Henson
