Bannatyne Club > Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald for the murder of Arthur Davis ... June, A.D. M.DCC.LIV [i.e. 1754]

175 k ALEXANDER BAIN MACDONALD. 11
Thk Lords Justice Clerk and Commissioners of Justiciary, having
considered the indictment pursued at the instance of ^Villiam Grant
of Prestongrange, Esq., His Majesties Advocate for his Majesties
interest, against Duncan Terig alias Clerk, and Alexander Bain
Macdonald, both now prisoners in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh,
panels, Mith the foresaid debate thereujjon : They find the said
indictment relevant to infer the pains of law ; but allow the panels
to prove all facts and circumstances that may tend to elide the
indictment, or exculpate them, or either of them, from the guilt of
the crime therein libelled : And remit the panels, with the indict-
ment as found relevant, to the knowledge of an assize.
Signed Ch. Areskine, i.p.d.
The Lords continue the diet at the instance of his Majesties
Advocate, against the said two panels, till to-morrow at seven o'clock
in the morning, and witnesses and assizers then to attend, each
under the pain of law, and the panels to be carried back to prison.
CURIA JUSTICIARIA S. D. N. Regis tenta in Nova
Sessionis Domo Btirgi de Edinburgh undecimo die viensis
Junij 1754, ^j^r honorahiles viros Carolum Areslcine de
Alva, Justiciarium Cleiicum, Dominum Gilhcrtiim Elliot
de Minto, Magistros Alexandrum Eraser de Stricken,
Patricium Grant de Elchies, et Hugonem Dalnjmple de
Drummore, et Dominum Jacobuni Ferguson de Killkerran,
Commissionarios Justiciarios diet. S. D. N. Re^is.