Mark Coleman Wallace PhD Thesis - University of St Andrews

of all facts and circumstances that may tend to exculpate them or alleviate their
Guilt, and Remits the Pannells with their lybell as found relelvant to the
knowledge of an Assize.
John Clerk Advocate procurator for the Pannels Admitts that the
Declarations of the Pannels lybelled on were omitted by them voluntarily and
freely, and that they were in their sound mind, and Sober senses at the time.
[Signed] John Clerk
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The Procurator for the Pannels concluded his Evidence in
Exculpation.
The Advocate Depute Summ’d up the Evidence on the part of the
Crown. Wm. Clark Summ’d up the Evidence on the part of the Pannels. The
Lord Justice Clerk, charged the Jury:
The Lord Justice Clerk, Ordains the assize instantly to enclose, in this
place, and to return their verdict in the same place to morrow at Eleven O’Clock
forenoon, the whole fifteen assizers then to attend, continues the Diet against the
panels, and the whole other diets of Court till the same time. And ordains the
Pannels in the meantime to be committed to Prison.
Intran John Andrew & Robert Ramsay Pannels Indicted and accused et supra
The persons who past on the Assize of the panels returned the following
verdict
At Ayr the seventeenth day of September one thousand eight hundred
years –
The above assize having inclosed made choice of the said William
Cunningham to be their chancellor an the said Alexander Smith to be their clerk
and having considered the Libel raised and pursued at the instance of his
Majesty’s Advocate for His Majesty against John Andrew & Robert Ramsay
Pannels the interlocutor of relevancy thereon pronounced by the Lord Justice
Clerk the evidence adduced in proof of the libel and the evidence in exculpation
they all in one voice find the facts Lybelled not proven. In witness whereof
Their said Chancellor and Clerk have Subscribed these presents in their names
and by their appointment place and date aforesaid [Signed] Wm. Cunningham
Chancellor, Alex. Smith Clerk
The Lord Justice Clerk In respect of the foregoing verdict Apologizes the
Pannels and dismisses them from the Bar.