 Matt Wade (Robert Karnes) escapes from prison and tries to persuade his brother Bill (James Brown), a reformed gunslinger, to participate in a hold-up. Billy refuses but Matt frames him and he is forced to ride off with the gang. Billy fights with his brother and accidentally kills him, while Matt s teen-aged son, Ted (John Wilder), who thinks his father had been paroled from prison, sees the shooting. Returning to town to explain the true situation, Billy is almost lynched by the townsmen mob who think he was part of the robbery. He escapes and goes back to the gang, pretending to join them but actually looking for evidence to clear himself and turn gang leader, Ike Garvey (Walter Coy), over to Marshal Sam Jennings (Jeff DeBenning.) Only his fiancée Arlene (Della Sharman) knows of his plan.