High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Isaac Bledsoe Desha was a 19th century American tanner who was convicted of murdering one man in Kentucky, and confessed to murdering another in Texas. He was the son of Kentucky Governor Joseph Desha. Shortly after his father's election as governor in 1824, Desha was accused of robbing and killing a man named Francis Baker, who was passing through Kentucky on his way to New Jersey. Several of Desha's belongings were found near Baker's body, and shortly after the murder was alleged to have taken place, Desha was found in possession of Baker's horse. Desha maintained that he had accepted the horse as payment from a man who owed him money, and friends of Governor Desha claimed that his political enemies had framed his son in order to tarnish the governor's image. Governor Desha's allies in the legislature arranged a favorable change of venue for the trial, and the governor used his appointment power to ensure that sympathetic judges would hear...

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