This is all I could find so far. African Americans have a well-founded distrust of the criminal justice system. In 1912, in Muscogee County, Georgia, a judge tried to assure a reasonably fair trial for Teasy McElhaney, a black fourteen-year-old. He appointed one of the leading lawyers in Columbus to defend the boy. The prosecutor called it murder; the jury convicted McElhaney of manslaughter. The judge handed down a prison sentence and left the court room. As bailiffs were taking McElhaney, barefoot and in shorts, out of the courthouse to the prison, uncles of Cleopholus Land, the boy who had been killed, probably in a gun accident, seized the prisoner. They took McElhaney by trolley to the edge of town and shot him. Genealogy: Collecting dead relatives and sometimes a live cousin! Genealogy: Where you confuse the dead and irritate the living.