Trial process details |
Associated case |
Weir,Bessie
(1677)
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Trial process type |
Mixed central/local |
Pre-trial central actions
Commissions |
Commissioning body |
Commission type |
Date |
Notes |
Privy Council |
Justiciary |
18/1/1677 |
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Pre-trial local actions
Imprisonments |
Date |
Prison |
Location |
1/1677 |
Tolbooth |
Paisley |
Other information |
Arrest |
Yes
|
Fled |
Yes
|
Pre-trial notes |
Commission for trial issued although suspect already imprisoned. Commission specified no torture. The text is in JC10/4. Weir escaped from prison and fled to the parish of Carmanack (?Kilmarnock) where she pretended to be Bessie Aikin, married to a man named Chrystie in Glasgow. |
Trial phase
Trial date | 14/2/1677 | Place of trial - parish | P/ST/1328 | Place of trial - presbytery | Paisley | Place of trial - county | Renfrew | Place of trial - burgh | Paisley | Verdict | Guilty | Sentence | Execution | Local trial with central representative | Yes | General trial notes | She had a Privy Council commission for trial, and was tried in front of what looks like a local trial with central representation. Edinburgh officials were sent out to the trial, and the trial appears in the minute books of the circuit court. |
People involved with trial
Post-trial phase
Execution | Yes | Execution method | Strangle & Burn | Execution date | 20/2/1677 | Execution location | Gallow Green | Execution place - parish | Paisley | Post-trial notes | between 2-4 in the afternoon |
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