Lizzie Randall, the preacher's pretty daughter, has been discovered
brutally murdered. The young Mexican boy Paco Morales is found close to
the scene making him a convenient scapegoat to hang for the heinous
crime. When the town drunkard Willie Turner claims that Morales is
innocent, Sheriff Ward Vincent is forced to investigate the heinous
crime more closely. As his investigation progresses, the dark underbelly
of the small western town is exposed, and the guilty seem to outnumber
the innocent.