Peter Miller, a hard-bitten town taming sheriff is devastated when he's forced by law to hang his own son, Bob, for theft of a gold shipment. Slade is convinced the man is innocent and sets out to prove it even as the hour of execution draws nigh. Shotgun Slade meets a "Laughing Widow." A young boy and a deputy are convicted of robbery and murder. Slade comes to investigate.

A man is wrongly Imprisoned for murder although his "victim" is alive. Vicky Martin's husband is in prison for the murder of a bank vice president whose body was never found, now rumored alive in Mexico, Vicky asks Slade for help.