In 1655, the legal records of Caithness identified Agnes Gune as a central figure in a prosecution for witchcraft centered in the town of Wick. The judicial proceedings, documented under case file C/EGD/766, reveal that Agnes became the subject of intense scrutiny during a period of heightened concern regarding the supernatural in the north of Scotland. Although the specific nature of the accusations brought against her remains unrecorded in the surviving documentation, the severity of the proceedings was sufficient to initiate a formal process within the Scottish legal system.
The trajectory of the case took a definitive turn when Agnes was classified as a fugitive from the circuit court. As noted in the trial records (T/LA/1925), she successfully avoided the immediate grasp of the authorities by fleeing the jurisdiction, effectively removing herself from the court's reach. Because of this flight, the legal proceedings against her remained unresolved. Historians such as Larner et al. have noted that her case file contains no record of a final judgment or sentence, leaving the ultimate outcome of Agnes’s interaction with the judicial apparatus a matter of historical uncertainty.