The true story of Hack Smithdeal, a sucessful Johnson City, Tennessee, businessman and the events that lead to his involvement in the shooting of Roy Faircloth. Faircloth's death led to the most sensational trial in Johnson Citry's history, complete with Roy Acuff as a key witness. Though her sympathies understandably rest with her father, author Patti Smithdeal Fulton relates the facts of the mysterious shooting and trial as a professional.
