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
Top 10 Billed Cast
James Richard 'Jim' Baldwin
Adrienne Grey
Fred Stevens
Ralph Winters
Bernice Winters
Spike Horton
George Malone
Harris
Judge Samuels
District Attorney
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