The Man Who Had Influence

Influential senator J.C. Grant has been extricating his son David from numerous scrapes and eventuality he spoiled scion is expelled from college. Things take a darker turn when a drunken David offers a club cigarette girl a ride home in his car and has an accident. Although the young woman bleeds o death as a consequence of his actions, the young Grant has no memory of the event. When he is indicted for manslaughter, his father uses his clout to get a respected judge assigned, a vulnerable jurist with a dying wife on the edge of bankruptcy whom he hopes will be susceptible to coercion.