For the Defense is a surviving 1916 American drama silent film directed by Frank Reicher and written by Hector Turnbull and Margaret Turnbull.

The film stars Fannie Ward, Jack Dean, Paul Byron, Horace B. Carpenter, Camille Astor and James Neill.

[1][2] In New York, traveling from a French convent to one in Montreal, the novice Fidele Roget is captured by a slaver.

Fidele realizes that it is the same crime he witnessed and decides to unmask the real murderer.

Posing as a servant in Webster's house, she manages to trick the butler and make him confess.