Cody is not a troublemaker, but he is lost and wounded after a gang of robbers try to kill him on the trail to Coker Town. Good citizens, including a young girl, Mary, help Cody, but when he gets into town he finds that Sheriff Pye is corrupt, mean, and ready to blame outsiders for every crime. He has Cody marked down for the murder of Jake Thatcher, a prominent citizen of the town who was slain by the same gang. Cody vows that he will unleash murder and mayhem on the men who embroiled him in this fight but he has been thrown into a tiny cell, falsely identified by the widow of the dead man, and today, without trial, he must hang...