 During the June term of the court, Desha's lawyers used a number of peremptory challenges to again prevent the court from empaneling a jury.The judge ordered him held without bail until the next session of the court, but Governor Desha, who was present at the proceedings, stood and issued a pardon for his son, as well as lambasting the judge in a lengthy impromptu speech.Some accounts hold that the governor immediately resigned upon granting the pardon, but the official records reflect no such action.