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On the night of August 5, 1927, someone shot and killed Coleman Osborn, a store owner inChatsworth, Georgia, in his place of business. Police and neighbors found only circumstantialtraces of the murderer tire tracks, boot prints, shell casings, and five dollars in cash nearOsborns body. That day, three individualsJames Hugh Moss, a black family man locallyrenowned for his baseball skills Clifford Thompson, Mosss white friend who grew up in theSmoky Mountains and Eula Mae Thompson, Cliffords wife and a woman with a troubling historyof failed marriages and minor run-ins with the lawleft Etowah, Tennessee, unknowinglyon a collision course with Deep South justice. In chilling detail, Robert N. Smith examines the circumstantial evidence and deeply flawedjudicial process that led to death sentences for Moss and the Thompsons.