Murder in Coweta County

"Murder in Coweta County" is a 1983 American made-for-television drama film starring Johnny Cash as Lamar Potts, the determined Sheriff of Coweta County, Georgia, who hunts down John Wallace (Andy Griffith), a wealthy landowner with unlimited power and control in Meriwether County. Based on a true story, the film follows Sheriff Potts' pursuit of justice for poor white tenant sharecropper Wilson Turner, whom Wallace murdered after a heated encounter. The movie is a well-done period piece that explores themes of power, corruption, and the rule of law in rural Georgia during the late 1940s.