In the spring of 1650, Janet M’Kie, a resident of the parish of Dalry in Ayrshire, found herself drawn into the legal machinery that characterized the intense period of witch-hunting in mid-seventeenth-century Scotland. On 22 April 1650, she was formally brought before the authorities under case reference C/LA/3194. The legal proceedings against her were recorded with administrative precision, marking the beginning of a process that moved from initial accusation to the eventual scrutiny of her testimony within the courtroom.
Following her apprehension, the judicial process culminated in a trial, indexed as T/LA/1759. Central to the legal proceedings against Janet was a confession, which was formally extracted and documented as part of the case file. While the surviving records do not detail the specific nature of the allegations brought against her in Dalry, the existence of a recorded confession indicates that Janet was compelled to answer to the court regarding her actions and beliefs. Her case remains a representative example of the localized judicial interventions that defined the era's approach to suspected witchcraft.