Maria Micallef, daughter of Julio, unmarried and from Birkirkara accuses Petrus Xiberras of coming into her house repeatedly and sexually harassing her. Witnesses were heard, although the validity of some testimonies was contested. Petrus was found guilty but not kept in jail or fined. The case was appealed but the sentence confirmed.
Curia CapitanalisLegal Documents
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Pauluccius 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.
Curia CapitanalisAndreas Vella from Casal Gregorio accuses Mattheo Sant from the same village of attacking and wounding his son Francesco on the feastday of the Conversion of Saint Paul. Francesco was at their ricetto of the in the area tal Maghtab with his younger brother Lucio. Mattheo came and asked them if they'd seen a loose pig and when Francesco said no, Mattheo went inside and attacked Lucio. Francesco came to the defence of his brother and was wounded. Witness statements and doctor's report. Mattheo was fined 6 uncia and incarcerated until he paid. On appeal to the SAU, the fine was moderated to 4 uncia.
Curia CapitanalisThomas 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.
Curia CapitanalisNatale Barbara from Qrendi accuses Bernardino Mallia, from Qrendi, and Benedetto Zammit from Mqabba of deceit. Zammit implicated Barbara in a false contract of sale of immovable property to Mallia in the acts of Notary Johannes Petrus Attard (18/09/1639). The notary was then prosecuted for negligence and of breaching the terms of expected conduct for a notary. The land involved was called Il Ginen and was in Qrendi. Bernardino was sentenced to ten years' rowing in chains and against no remuneration on the galleys of the Order for 10 years, Benedetto for seven. The notary was fined 20 uncia. The case was appealed to the ACA by the Notary who claimed that he had been himself deceived due to his old age. The fine was reduced to 12 uncia.
Curia CapitanalisAndrea Falson, Mattheo Agius, Domenicus Azzopardi, Mattheolo Debono, and Gregorio Coyacono of monopoly. They are accused of working together to buy quantities of beef and veal in both Malta and Gozo as well imported from Sicily, generating a false scarcity, and then selling their meat at whatever price they desired. Moreover they agreed to undercut external offers to buy the meat from the other butchers if a third party offered to buy it for less than the expected price. Various witnesses including buthcers were interrogated. Copies of the licence to keep a butcher's shop issued to all the involved butchers included. The sentence of the MCC is not present (17/04/1640) but it seems that they were acquitted, or confirmed in their acquittal by a later sentence on appeal of the ACA (22/08/1640). By a special decree of the Grandmaster (not included, 24/04/1641), Judge Anastasius Surdo was appointed to hear the case again.
Magna Curia CastellaniaGiovanni Vastagna from Għaxaq accuses Lorenzo Baldacchino from the same village of accosting him and assaulting him outside the village's parish church. He was wounded with a knife (coltello).
Curia CapitanalisImperia 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.
Curia CapitanalisGiuseppe 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.
Curia CapitanalisMichael Barbara, Domenico Barbara and Mario Barbara, father and sons from Gudia, accuse Gabriele, Valerio and Andrea Ellul, father and sons from Gudia and Kirkop, they had visited the house of Simone Barbara, their other son and brother, in Gudia, where he was lying infirm, and threatened him with swords, knives and other weapons. They claimed that his wife was the daughter of Gabriele and took away as much clothing and other material as they could from the house. A full page list of all the stolen goods is presented. Gabriele Ellul was fined by the court. On appeal to the SAU, the fine was confirmed.
Curia CapitanalisFrancesco Muscat from Casal Qormi is accused of breaching the conditions of his sentence of exile from Malta and Gozo to Sicily. He was sentenced to rowing on one of the Order's galleys with bound feet and against no pay for six years. On appeal this was moderated to three years.
Curia CapitanalisLeonardo Grech accused Demetrius and Mattheus Bonnici (father and son) of assaulting him in Vittoriosa. Various witness statements collected.
Magna Curia CastellaniaAgatuccia Fisatini from Casal Nigret is accused of an altercation with a certain Maruzza over a cat. She was fined 2 uncia. Case appealed but result not included.
Curia CapitanalisStephanus Saliba, who was the keeper of a tavern in Valletta, is accused of fraud by which he mixed good quality wine with bad wine and sold it all as good wine. Other witness statements collected.
Magna Curia CastellaniaVennera Mangion accuses Henciona La Rosa of assaulting her in her hosue in Vittoriosa.
Magna Curia CastellaniaThe Turkish slave Merchach, property of Antonius de Lauda, is accused of going beyond the boundaries allowed to infidel slaves and Jews for three days and nights, going as far as the limits of Qormi without guard. It is noted that he always slept in the slave jail.
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Magna Curia CastellaniaThe Moorish slave Hagi Macomet, possession of the Order, and Petrus de Noto are accused of sodomy, committed inside the stables of the Grandmaster.
Magna Curia CastellaniaPetrus Allegro accuses Vincentius Greg (barklor) of assaulting him.
Magna Curia CastellaniaFranciscus 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.
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