Leake Bevil

Morganville's bully-boy, Dan Morgan - to his great misfortune - cheats Bat in a poker game. Bat executes a bold plan to retrieve his money: He discovers the names of Morgan's other victims - and sets out to settle scores for them as well as for himself.

An unsophisticated miner runs afoul of a town boss and is framed for murder. When the town's lawyers refuse to represent him properly because they fear for their lives, Bat decides to represent the defendant in court himself.