

Circumstantial Evidence(1935)
Do District Attorneys Want Honest Justice or Merely Convictions!
A reporter sets out to provide how unreliable circumstantial evidence is by faking a murder and then taking the rap for it. However, the "fake" murder victim turns out to be really dead
Movie: Circumstantial Evidence
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