Considering that the original source for the series was the Owen Wister novel The Virginian, it's highly ironic that this story is opposed to lynch violence. The original novel and the feature films made from same is a story about how The Virginian catches his best friend rustling cattle and he hung him on the spot. In the absence of constituted law you make your own was the novel's premise.
In this story an old colleague from the bar from Judge Garth, John Dehner led a lynch mob and hung the son of Joan Blondell when it was claimed he murdered a young girl in a grisly matter. With John Hoyt as judge presiding, Lee J. Cobb acts as defense counsel for the lynched party if he were alive with Dehner prosecuting. The truth is learned out of the proceedings.
An interesting episode considering what the novel The Virginian was all about.
In this story an old colleague from the bar from Judge Garth, John Dehner led a lynch mob and hung the son of Joan Blondell when it was claimed he murdered a young girl in a grisly matter. With John Hoyt as judge presiding, Lee J. Cobb acts as defense counsel for the lynched party if he were alive with Dehner prosecuting. The truth is learned out of the proceedings.
An interesting episode considering what the novel The Virginian was all about.
