In a barroom fight over Connie Zelenko, Eddie Dickinson is badly wounded and Connie's boyfriend is killed. Witnesses claim Dickinson is the killer, but he maintains his innocence despite public prosecutor Murray Brock's advice that he plead guilty and take a life-imprisonment sentence rather than risk capital punishment. When Connie comes out of hiding, she confirms the other witnesses' stories, but Brock believes Dickinson is innocent. Dickinson sticks to his story at his trial but receives the death sentence. In the death house, Dickinson continues to maintain his innocence, but after the execution of the sentence, Brock receives a letter from Dickinson confessing to the murder.
Simon Oakland
as Murray Brock
Everett Sloane
as Paul Boyer
Anne Helm
as Connie Zelenko
Richard Jordan
as Eddie Dickinson
Karl Held
as Dave Ryan
Bartlett Robinson
as John T. McGrane
Simon Scott
as District Attorney
Louis Guss
as Joe Damico
Harold Gould
as Arnie Tomkins
Don Keefer
as Dr. Michaels
William Bramley
as Nick Williams
Robert P. Lieb
as Judge
