Trial and Error

Wilfred Morgenhall is overjoyed to have won the dock brief, the defence of an accused individual with no lawyer (at public expense) The other is his client, Herbert Fowle, an insignificant man who just wants to plead guilty to murdering his wife and get it all over. Fwle hatched a plot to get rid of his wife by taking in a male lodger. The lodger found her amusing and attractive, until one day he went too far and she threw him out of the house. In despair at his plot having failed he killed her.