In a barroom brawl, Eddie Dickinson is gravely injured and Connie's boyfriend is fatally wounded. Witnesses testify that Dickinson is the killer, but he insists on his innocence despite public prosecutor Murray Brock's counsel to plead guilty and accept a life sentence to avoid capital punishment. When Connie emerges from hiding, she corroborates the other witnesses' accounts, but Brock believes Dickinson is innocent.
Ready for the People
A barroom brawl over a woman named Connie Zelenko leaves Eddie Dickinson gravely injured and Connie's boyfriend dead, with witnesses mistakenly identifying Dickinson as the killer, while he insists on his innocence despite pressure from the public prosecutor to plead guilty.
