Businessman Stanley Whittaker (Douglas Dumbrille) is found dead in his office, an apparent suicide with a typed letter provided that says he admitted to embezzling the company and tried to blame Jim Trent (Walter Abel) for it.
However, the police are suspicious and soon Trent is arrested for murder. To Paula Young's (Ann Harding) horror the trial is going badly for Trent, whom she loves. Also, it comes out that Trent's daughter (Frances Sage) was having an affair with Whittaker. Finally, Paula decides she must make a shocking admission herself...
After a first act in the office the majority of the film takes place in the courtroom and it is a solid film with a good story, with a number of facets which are gradually revealed, even if court procedure seems a bit lax at times.
