A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when based on circumstantial evidence alone, but his plan goes awry.
Leslie Brooks
as Lorna Claibourne
George Macready
as Donald Wayne
Forrest Tucker
as Larry James
Charles D. Brown
as D. A. Darrell Tyson
Warren Mills
as Felix
Richard Hale
as Reginald Fogg
Charles Evans
as Judge
Trevor Bardette
as Police Sgt. Arthur Landis
William Newell
as Police Sgt. Clay