The 1935 trial for Erma Morton, a teacher in a remote Virginia mountain town who stands accused of murdering her drunken father, causes reporter Carl Jennings to clash with the rest of the media when his accurate reporting conflicts with the sensational accounts from the other journalists who insist on portraying Erma as a backwards mountain girl.
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