CURIA JUSTICIARIA S. D. N. REGIS, Tenta in Nova Sessionis domo de
Edinburgh, Vicesimo Octavo die Augusti millesimo septingentesimo
Octogesimo octavo, Per Honorabiles Viros; ROBERTUM M‘QUEEN de
Braxfield, Dominum Justiciarium Clericum; Dominum DAVIDEM DALRYMPLE
de Hailes, Baronetum; DAVIDEM RAE de Eskgrove; JOANNEM CAMPBELL de
Stonefield; et JOANNEM SWINTON de Swinton, Dominos Commissionarios
Justiciarae dict. S. D. N. Regis.
Curia Legitime Affirmata.
INTRAN. William Brodie, sometime Wright and Cabinetmaker in
Edinburgh, and George Smith, sometime Grocer there, both prisoners
in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh.
PANNELS.
INDICTED and ACCUSED as in the preceding Sederunt.
The Court being again met, and the prisoners brought to the bar, the
Clerk of Court called over the list of the jury, and all being present,
the Lord Justice-Clerk asked them who was their Chancellor, upon which
the Chancellor rose, and delivered their verdict to his Lordship, sealed
with black wax.
The verdict being opened and read by the judges severally, they
appointed it to be recorded. During this pause a deep silence prevailed.
The verdict being recorded, the Lord Justice-Clerk called upon the
prisoners to attend to it, and it was then read aloud by the Clerk of
Court as follows:--
At Edinburgh the twenty-eighth day of August one
thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight years.
The above assize having inclosed, did make choice of the said John
Hutton to be their Chancellor, and of the said John Hay to be their
Clerk: and having considered the Criminal Indictment raised and
pursued at the instance of Ilay Campbell, Esq., His Majesty’s
Advocate, for His Majesty’s interest, against William Brodie, late
wright and cabinetmaker in Edinburgh, and George Smith, late grocer
there, pannels,[26] with the interlocutor pronounced by the Lord
Justice-Clerk and Lords Commissioners of Justiciary on the
relevancy thereof together with the depositions of the witnesses
adduced by the prosecutor for proving the same, and the several
declarations libelled on, as also the depositions of the witnesses
adduced for the pannel William Brodie, in exculpation; they all, in
one voice, find the pannels William Brodie and George Smith GUILTY
of the crime charged against them in the said Indictment. In
witness whereof their said Chancellor and Clerk have subscribed
these presents upon this and the preceding page, place and date
foresaid, in their name and by their appointment.
JOHN HUTTON, Chanr.
JOHN HAY, Clerk.
The LORD ADVOCATE--It is now incumbent upon me, my Lords, to move your
Lordships to pronounce the sentence of the law against the prisoners at
the bar.
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