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This episode actually had a very interesting plot. The only negative was with the limited 30 minute format, the show was so rushed that there was no time to get in-depth within the story or with the characters. But even with the limitation, the show did make for an interesting episode.

The show starts during an argument involving a married couple. Things get out of hand when the husband, Dooley, slaps his wife, Amy, in the face. Amy gets a gun and when Dooley throws a lantern at her she fires. The next scene is that she is in jail for killing her husband and the town is alive since the Judge has sentenced Amy to hang.

A man named Jericho, that works for the US Attorney General's office is sent to the town to look at the facts surrounding the killing. When Jericho gets to town he will begin to look at the facts in the case and when he finds out that a female has paid for a headstone, the house of cards starts to fall.

Had this been in a longer format then we could have got more detail and find out exactly what happened in the end. Here we are left with more questions than answers. However, we still have a interesting story that ended way too soon.

Guy Madison who was television's Wild Bill Hickok stars in this Zane Grey Theater production where he once again plays a western marshal. But he's got a job of detecting to do instead. There's a hanging been ordered by the famous judge Isaac Parker played here by John Hoyt and it's a woman, Beverly Garland.

He's under a no violence order by Attorney General Les Tremayne to delay the hanging until the Supreme Court which has a case before which might grant a right of appeal in capital cases.

Tremayne's instincts prove correct. Garland is of course innocent though I will not reveal what exactly did happen. She was accused of killing the man she was keeping company with George Wallace.

Madison's efforts are not helped by Deputy Marshal Claude Akins who has a temper and pulls a cork as often as Rooster Cogburn.

This one deserved a longer time period to get the characters and story on firmer ground. Still the ensemble cast does put this over as best they could in the limited time.