Believing her husband Tyler (Walter Pidgeon) has been seeing another woman, Barbara Winter (Rita Johnson), behind her back, Elizabeth Flagg (Virginia Bruce) begins a relationship with Michael McLain (Lee Bowman), who then blackmails her with her love letters. During a struggle for the letters, a gun goes off, McLain falls and Elizabeth flees. But police find McLain's wife, Eva (Ann Dvorak, near the body and charge her with murder. With a guilty conscience, Elizabeth asks her husband, a lawyer, to defend Eva in court. He endeavors to prove someone else did the shooting, unaware his own wife was directly involved. Eva eventually confesses, but is set free when it is determined that she acted in self-defense. (from Wikipedia)