Ep 10. The Professor

When Matlock's former mentor, Professor Erskine Tate, is framed by his students for a hit-and-run homicide, the attorney defends him against seemingly irrefutable evidence. Four of Tate's resentful students conspire to have him thrown out of school for drunk driving. After drugging the professor's drink and putting him, unconscious, into his car, they stage an accident in which Tate appears to sideswipe a bus. Homicide, however, was not part of the plan. An eyewitness identifying Tate as the hit-and-run driver and Tate's second-guessing of Ben's courtroom techniques compound Matlock's defense problem.