James Millican

Gene Autry becomes the new Sheriff after bank robbers kill the former sheriff. When Judge Beaumont is murdered, evidence points to the judge's wild son. Believing the young man, Gene tries to help.

A man joins the cavalry in his quest for two killers; Indians capture all three.

Ford stars as a sadistic Civil War veteran, teetering on the brink of insanity, who has been killing for the sheer joy of it, even after the official battles cease. Although his mind has become unbalanced by the terrors of the war, he manages somehow to secure a job as a judge in Colorado and uses his power to torture and kill all those who would oppose him.