William Stewart alias James Smith, present prisoner in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, you are indicted and accused, at the instance of James Montgomery, Esq; his Majesty's Advocate, ... that whereas ... theft of cattle, particularly of black cattle, is a crime of a heinous nature ... yet true it is, and of verity, that you ... upon the night betwixt the eleventh and twelfth days of November last, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-six, or upon one or other of the nights or days of that month, or of October immediately preceeding, or of December immediately following, you did theftuously and feloniously steal, and drive away from the inclosures of Binns ... belonging to Sir Robert Dalyell of Binns, Baronet, five cows and two little highland stots ...
Stewart, William.
[Edinburgh : s.n.,
1766]
Signed: Henry Dundas, A.D.
The indictment is followed by lists of jurymen and witnesses.
ESTC
Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of English broadsides,
Stewart, William
Trials (Fraud)
Trials (Robbery)
Scotland Edinburgh.