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Not sure I understand your question. I did find the following online:

"He was charged with treason after the Civil War, and his defense team claimed that the 14th Amendment already punished Davis by preventing him from holding public office in the future and that further prosecution and punishment would violate the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

In fact, the 14th Amendment had been passed during the time of Davis' indictment in the federal court system, when the case of United States v. Jefferson Davis was being heard.

One of the trial justices in the Davis case in 1868 was Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon Chase, who was at the district court in his role as a circuit judge. Chase wanted the treason charges dismissed, but a second judge, John C. Underwood, disagreed with him.

With a deadlock in district court, the Davis case would head automatically to the Supreme Court. But President Andrew Johnson issued a general pardon on Christmas Day in December 1868 for all those who fought for the Confederacy, provided that anyone eligible applied for one.

It was actually Johnson's fourth amnesty provision for Confederates, and it restored civil and property rights and provided immunity from treason charges. But it didn't allow former Confederate officials to vote or hold office.

In 1872, the Amnesty Act was amended to allow almost all former Confederates, expect for several hundred former high-ranking officials (such as Davis), to hold public office and vote.

So while Davis became eligible for a general pardon, he didn't have full citizenship rights if he wanted to hold elected federal office."

There is also this:

"Some imprisoned members of the Confederate Cabinet petitioned President Andrew Johnson for pardons. Johnson was cautious about granting pardons to the senior Confederate leadership and would not act quickly; the pardons were withheld. However, he did allow the applicants to be released from prison. On October 11, 1865, President Andrew Johnson issued an order providing:

"Whereas the following-named persons, to wit, John A. Campbell, of Alabama; John H. Reagan, of Texas; Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia; George A. Trenholm, of South Carolina, and Charles Clark, of Mississippi, lately engaged in rebellion against the United States Government, who are now in close custody, have made their submission to the authority of the United States and applied to the President for pardon under his proclamation; and Whereas the authority of the Federal Government is sufficiently restored in the aforesaid States to admit of the enlargement of said persons from close custody: It is ordered that they be released on giving their respective paroles to appear at such time and place as the President may designate to answer any charge that he may direct to be preferred against them, and also that they will respectively abide until further orders in the places herein designated, and not depart therefrom..."

Of course, Jeff Davis never petitioned President Andrew Johnson for a pardon.

Democratic President Andrew Johnson pardoned about 7,000 people in the “over $20,000” class by May 4, 1866. More than 600 prominent North Carolinians were pardoned just before the election of 1865. President Andrew Johnson pardoned, commuted or rescinded the convictions of 654 people during his term. Among them are:
* Confederate soldiers - unconditional amnesty to all Confederates on Christmas Day 1868; earlier amnesties requiring signed oaths and excluding certain classes of people were issued both by Lincoln and by Johnson. Among them were:
* Charles Anderson
* Richard Anderson
* Eli Bruce
* Horatio Bruce
* Augustus Garland
* James Owens
* Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States
* Samuel Arnold - charged with conspiring to murder Lincoln
* Dr. Samuel Mudd - charged with conspiring to murder Lincoln