On April 6, 1658, Christian Sinclair, also identified in contemporary documentation as Cristian Huntar, appeared before the court in Ayr. A married woman residing in the locality of Craigie, her case is preserved within the legal records of the period under the reference C/LA/3131. The proceedings were part of a broader judicial assembly in Ayr, which saw a number of individuals summoned to account for their conduct under the legal frameworks of the mid-seventeenth century.
The administrative burden of the trial suggests a significant degree of preparation by the authorities. Christian was included among a group of accused individuals whose summons was formalised via two separate porteous rolls, the first of which was dated March 31, 1658. This administrative timeline indicates that the court had been preparing for the proceedings against Christian and her contemporaries for at least a week prior to their appearance, reflecting the structured, if austere, nature of the seventeenth-century Scottish judicial process.