J.L. Davis, known as Diamondfield Jack, was the best known of the gunmen who fought in Idaho's sheep and cattle wars. He was tried in Cassia County for shooting two sheepherders in 1896 and spent most of six years in the county jail while the courts and pardon board tried to decide what to do with him. After he was convicted, other cattlemen confessed to the crime. He narrowly escaped hanging twice before the pardon board released him late in 1902 after deciding he was not guilty after all.