In the spring of 1630, the legal machinery of Scotland turned its attention toward an Edinburgh resident named Patrick Murray. The formal proceedings began on April 21, when a commission for his trial was issued, setting in motion the judicial process that would culminate in the final weeks of his life. Little survives in the extant records regarding the specific allegations or the nature of the testimony brought against Patrick; he remains a figure whose life is defined primarily by the administrative rigor of the early modern court system.
On May 13, 1630, the trial concluded with a verdict of guilty. Following the judgment, Patrick was sentenced to death by burning. This sentence was carried out later that same month in May 1630, marking the end of his case. While the historical record (C/JO/2788 and T/JO/326) provides only the essential bureaucratic markers of his arrest, trial, and execution, it preserves the brief timeline of his involvement in the Scottish witch trials, placing him within the broader context of seventeenth-century judicial practice.