A young architect engaged to Nancy Brookfield. Unwittingly hypnotized by Jack Brookfield, he commits a murder in a trance state. His lack of conscious intent drives the central courtroom drama and the desperate legal strategy to prove hypnotism as a defense.
Brookfield unknowingly exerts subconscious control over Clay through his psychic gift.
Clay becomes the unwitting instrument of Hardmuth's death under hypnotic influence.
Prentice takes on the legal defense of Clay, who is accused of murder.
A scientific authority called to validate hypnosis as a defense for Clay's actions.
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