It begins with a robbery, but quite

unexpectedly, gets much worse sud-

denly, someone has heen killed. For

Charles Howard, the young, bright but

troubled barrister, the case is a chal-

lenge: One of the rohbers killed the

man, but which one? Both his defen-

dant and the man s accomplice contend

it was the other--what they call in the

trade a cut-throat defense. It s a classic

legal dilemma, but no one has yet come

up with a simple solution.

Charles must come to the trial with a

very good game plan. But with his

personal life in a shambles, and the

added distraction of trying to save a

young clerk from becoming the center

of a sleazy Court scandal, he s forced to

pull out all the stops to make it to

the trial with his case--and his sanity

intact.