Looks like he wasn't afraid of the verdict.

We ain't, either.

I want you to remember, Judge, if you don't clear him--" Here counsel for the Territory interrupted, feeling that the majesty of the law was not fully observed by threatening the trial judge in advance.
"Well, come along, then," said Anderson.

"Let that part of it go.
Come over and let's get out the warrant." I was not with them when the warrant was issued, though that part of the proceeding might naturally have seemed rather the duty of the prosecution than of the defence.

Dan Anderson afterward told me that Blackman could not find his law book (he had only one, a copy of the statutes of Kansas) for a long time, and then couldn't find the proper place in it.