West Texas saloon owner Will Morgan greets a gore-covered, pistol-waving redhead. He is stunned when Constance Riley accuses him of killing her father, a New York banker-turned-temperance-leader. Her repulsive cousin, Sheriff Ernest Kopel, charges both of them and locks them up--together. While Constance watches the gallows being built and ponders the saloon owner's odd tastes and talents, Will ponders the real murderer's motives. He only hopes proof of his suspicions arrives with his summoned cousin, J.P. Morgan, before a lynch mob or this lovely woman end his good intentions.