American State Trials Volume X (1918) by John D. Lawson, LL.D. Featuring the abridged Leo Frank trial testimony (begins on page 182) for the murder of Mary Phagan who was strangled on Confederate Memorial Day (April 26th) in Atlanta, Georgia. The trial would be the first time in American history when the testimony of a black man (Jim Conley) would be central to convicting a White man (Leo Frank) for murder by an all White jury (1913). When Georgian Governor John M. Slaton, the law partner of the Leo Frank defense team, commuted Leo Franks death sentence to life in prison, a well organized group of Georgia's upper crust elite seized Frank from Prison without firing a single gun shot, drove him all through the night and then lynched him from an oak tree. The Leo Frank conviction became the impetus for the creation of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.