Circumstantial Evidence (1945)

Directors

John Larkin

Cast

Lloyd Nolan, Michael O'Shea

The story

When Joe Reynolds confronts a cantankerous baker who has confiscated his son's toy hatchet, Kenny the baker is killed in the scuffle. Three witnesses see Joe raising the hatchet and assume that he has used it to kill Kenny, but Joe insists that Kenny died when his head struck an oven. On trial, Joe is sentenced to death on the strength of the witnesses' testimony.

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