In the autumn of 1621, Christiane Grahame, an indweller of Glasgow, found herself at the centre of a formal legal process that would lead to her execution. The proceedings against her were deeply interconnected with the judicial landscape of the period, as evidenced by the fact that details of her case were recorded within the summation of the trial of M. Wallace. The initial stages of the inquiry involved a formal denunciation, with a deposition submitted directly to the Archbishop of Glasgow. Following this, Christiane was held in the Tolbooth, where, on 26 August 1621, a confession was formally recorded.
The legal process moved with relative swiftness through the autumn. By 26 October 1621, Christiane appeared in Lanark to face the final stages of her trial. The court reached a verdict of guilty, and the sentence of execution was carried out the following day, 27 October 1621. While historical records note that Christiane’s own mother was mentioned during the proceedings, the surviving documentation—specifically cases C/EGD/905 and trials T/LA/56 and T/LA/74—focuses primarily on the formal trajectory of her examination, confession, and the final administration of the court's sentence.