A distinguished barrister, calmly finishes a day in court and announces the police will be arriving to arrest him for murder. The evidence, when it comes, is enough to hang an archbishop: his friend, a judge, has been found stabbed to death, and his fingerprints are on the knife. Moreover, a mysterious letter accused the judge of the hit-and-run death of the barrister's little girl—a crime the barrister had vowed to avenge. As the noose of trial evidence tightens, the barrister dismisses his lawyer and with the aid of a beautiful assistant takes over his own defense, for he must find the real murderer or be hanged himself.