Convicted

A district attorney becomes the warden of a state prison so that he can help a convict he prosecuted because he now believes the sentence to be excessive. Joe Hufford gets involved in a nightclub brawl, kills a man in self-defense, and is sent to prison for manslaughter, to the dismay of district attorney George Knowland, who realizes that Joe had an incompetent lawyer who should have gotten him off by proving self-defense. Later, Knowland becomes warden of the prison Joe is in, and makes him a Trustee and his chauffeur. Joe falls in love with the warden's daughter Kay, but he then gets involved in a prison escape.