On 27 July 1629, the legal records of the Scottish courts registered the case of Aleson Sinclair, marking the beginning of formal proceedings against her. Under the administrative classification C/LA/3016, the legal machinery of the seventeenth-century judiciary identified Aleson as the subject of an investigation concerning the charge of witchcraft. This period was characterized by a rigorous judicial focus on such matters, and the entry serves as the primary archival testament to her encounter with the authorities during a volatile era of social and religious upheaval.
Following the initial registration of the case, the formal trial—catalogued as T/LA/1277—commenced. The existence of these two distinct records confirms that Aleson was processed through the established legal channels of the time, where the allegations against her were subjected to the scrutiny of the court. While the surviving documentation remains sparse, these entries constitute the totality of the official evidence preserved regarding her case, capturing the moment when Aleson was formally drawn into the judicial system that defined the Scottish witch trials.