Item 9 - Processus Criminalus contra Georgium Spagnol C. Haxac et Salvatorem Attardo C. Pasqualino

Josephus Baldacchino, married Cleric from Vittoriosa prosecutes Georgio Spagnol from Ghaxaq and Salvatore Attard from Casal Pasqualino. He allages that while he was holding marriage celebrations at the house of his aunt Alonzica, wife of Michaele Cassar, in Casal Pasqualino for his cousin Giovanella, the accused gatecrashed and ruined the wedding. Witness statements collected. Spagnol was also accused of breaching a curfew imposed on him by the court in a previous sitting. Attard was acquitted but Spagnol condemned to 4 years' rowing without pay and with bound feet on the Order's galleys. The case was appealed and the sentence moderated to three years.