Deputies Stark and Porter are forced to kill a man in self-defense, but no one believes them. Marshal Ragan has to find the only witness to the shooting who can clear the two, otherwise they'll be hanged for murder.
Vance and Del kill a man who just shot another unarmed man. The one witness to the shooting - a woman disappears. Soon Vance and Dell are in jail because the man they killed was married to the most powerful person in town, and she wants Vance and Del dead.