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Case #AUTO_1771290369096840

Homicide Fatal

Case Description

after dinner and drinking, three friends including Pietro Scala are walking home; they stop in the Borgo dei Borcelli to call some others and to figure out where to head next, and Pietro Scala shoots off his archibus and it hits Pietro Benassi in the stomach as well as Scala's pal Giacomo in the arm; he immediately starts to cry out that it was an accident. Benassi dies.

Motive

drunken gun shooting

Legal Record

Court
Tribunale di Torrone

Outcome

Filled indicator = recorded in source; hollow = not recorded or not applicable.

Fatal
Convicted
Sentence enforced
In contumacia
Pardoned
Arbitration

Archival Sources

Archival location
II.138.6784