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Complaint and petition (assault)
Complaint (assault - entering the house of Catherine Sinclair, widow in Leabitten to impress her sons John Smith and his brother, and in do doing knocked Ursilla Smith their sister to the floor so that she was 'wallowing in her blood' etc.) (criminal)
Complaint (assault - on Charles Gifford, pilot and shoemaker, Commercial Street, Lerwick). (Criminal)
Complaint (cruelty to a child). (Criminal)
Complaint (desertion.) (Criminal)
Complaint (for molesting petitioner by assaulting him, breaking up his door and threatening him.) (Criminal)
Complaint (for threatening pursuers with a sword, and saying 'God damn me to Hell, if I do not stick him or them as soon as they come down the Kirk Closs'.) (Criminal)
Complaint (perjury - in the trial of John Smith Jr., resident. at Mail, Cunningsburgh). (Criminal)
Complaint (rioting and breach of the peace.) (Criminal)
Complaint (theft - from wreck of Hunter of Lerwick.) (Criminal)