Clemens Psayla from Qormi accuses Petrus Mifsud from Qormi and others that while he was travelling to Mqabba to pay Johannes Petrus Zammit two scudi for a pig (maiale) he was accosted close to the cross in the area Tal Chandae (perhaps Ta Kandja) by the accused, who was carrying a sword and knife (spada e pugnale) and assaulted him, causing him grevious injury. Petrus Mifsud is interrogated. Case file incomplete.
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Giovanni Maria Desira reports that while he was talking to Vincenzo Tonna and Paolo Salerno close to where the Gozo boat docks in Valletta about some sopressati di pesce that he wanted to buy, he saw captain Gerolamo Giannino approaching with a walking stick with which Giannino then started beating Salerno. He was fined four uncia.
UntitledCommences with interrogation of witnesses. Petrus and Philippus Marsala are accused of assaulting Vincentius Baieli with swords. No sentence.
The unmarried (mulier soluta) Maria Greg accuses Michaele Borg of trying to take her out of her house by force. A certain Marius Haxiet, with whom she had sexual relations, intervened to help her but Borg drew a knife on him.
Petrus Hellul, recovering at the Sacra Infermeria, reports that while he was riding from Valletta and in the area of Sarria, he and his companion Ignatius Calleja came across Antonius Xicluna, who assaulted them with a knife (coltello). Visible watermark.
Franciscus Randun is accused of attacking Alfonzo Balzan with a sword and wounding him in the shoulder/arm. This altercation took place at the tavern of Franciscus Gotto at the Mandraggio of Burmula.
UntitledPetrus Allegro accuses Vincentius Greg (barklor) of assaulting him.
UntitledVennera Mangion accuses Henciona La Rosa of assaulting her in her hosue in Vittoriosa.
UntitledLaurentius Celestri from Senglea reports that that morning while in Valletta to buy fish, he was assulted by Clemenzio Zerafa, a sailor from the tartana of padrone Honoratus Amaira, on which Celestri himself had once sailed.
UntitledThe infidel slave Sefer from Tunis, rower on the trireme Santo Luigi was accosted by a certain soldiers of the same galley, called Johannes Maria (no surname given), outside the Sacra Infermeria, who wounded him in the right leg, drawing blood. Two doctors' reports.
UntitledJohannes di Letimo reports that he had been swimming with some other sailors at the marina of Vittoriosa but was assaulted by Raffaele Petrazzini on his way home Doctor's report and othe witness statements. The case was retracted by Di Letimo himself.
UntitledCleria Agius is accused of causing the death of the unborn child of Maria di Antonelli by beating her and generally assaulting her. Various witness statements, including by the midwives.
UntitledGiovanni Carolo Cacutari was swimming in the marina of Burmula close to the Convent of St Theresa when he made threatening gestures with a sword at the guards of the gate of Senglea, and he then shot a pistol in their direction. He then resisted arrest. He was sentenced to row for life.
UntitledImperia Dingli, widow of Lazzaro farrugia, wife of Domenico, from Siggiewi, accuses her son Giovanni Maria Farrugia of attacking her when she gone by his house to recover personal belongings of her daughter Lorenza, the accused's sister. Various witnesses interrogated. Giovanni Maria was acquitted but the case appealed to the SAU. The SAU fined him 10 uncia. The fine was moderated to 4 uncia on re-appeal.
UntitledGiuseppe de Laurenzo from Casal Qormi accuses Giovanni Maria Galdes from the same village that on the feastday of the Visitation of St Mary the accused stole two handkerchiefs (fazzoletti) from him while he was drinking in company at De Laurenzo's garden. When confronted, the accused lashed out with a knife. Witnesses interrogated Galdes was fined 5 uncia. The fine was confirmed on appeal to the SAU.
UntitledMartino Grima is accused of wounding Mariano Cassar. The altercation arose after a game of gambling.
UntitledPauluccius Dimegh (Dimech) from Zebbug is accused of wounding Ignatius Mifsud from the same village with a knife (coltello). Witness statements taken. He was sentenced to 20 years' rowing on the Orders' galley. The sentences was appealed to the SAU by Dimegh, and he was acquitted from the charge of assault and simply fined 4 uncia for carrying a knife illegally.
UntitledThomas Cutajar from Siggiewi, and servant of the same village's captain, accuses Martinus Imbrol from Siggiewi. Cutajar had approached Imbrol at the tavern of Mario Mallia in Siggiewi and told him to go deposit the money owed with the village Captain or he would have had him imbrisoned as a debtor. At which point Imbrol stabbed him with a knife (stilletto). Witness statements collected. Imbrol sentenced to two years' rowing on the galleys of the Order with no payment and with bound feet. The case was then appealed to the Suprema Curia Appellationis (ACA) but the sentence was upheld.
UntitledLudovico de Vignon, servant of Fra Gismondi reports that while he was on his way back from the Auberge of Italy he passed by the tavern of Giuseppe Xicluna who assaulted him.
Angelo Ciuccala accusses Tommaso Salvaterra, Petrus Viano, and Johannes Paulus Barthalo of attacking him outside his home in Vittoriosa.
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