The night of the social at the Lancer ranch, it is dark outside, and moonlight is visible behind the Chinese lanterns hung for the dance. But in the next sequence when Evans escapes from his jail cell at the guardhouse, it is full daylight, and Johnny, Evans, and the horses' shadows are all clearly visible. Then when Marshall Barker leaves the guardhouse after the scuffle and returns to the dance, it is again as dark as night.