This is the first "Perry Mason" featuring a female judge.
This is the second consecutive episode in which Joan Camden appears, both times portraying the girlfriend of the murder victim. Closing out season one in The Case of the Rolling Bones (1958), she plays Donna Knox, enamored of Maury Lewis/Monty Sewel. Here, in the first entry of season two, she plays Ruth Whittaker, who's fallen for George Beaumont.
Beginning with this episode, a new opening credit sequence was shot. Perry receives a folder from the judge in a courtroom, just as in the first season sequence, and passes it around for the other marquee characters to examine. But this time, said characters are not all sitting at one table; Paul and Della are sitting at the defense counsel's table, and Burger and Tragg are sitting at the prosecutor's table.
Debut of Joan Staley.
The credits in the new title sequence are rendered in a font known as Wide Latin. This font would be used in all of the various title sequences for the rest of the series, becoming a trademark of it that would later be used in the Perry Mason TV movies of the 1980s.