On the 13th of May the case comes on for its third and last trial.

The court is again composed of six ecclesiastics of high rank, assisted by the same official counsel as before; the same course of proceeding is adopted, except that the prisoner is not brought into court or examined.

Again, after "invoking the most holy name of God," the tribunal pronounces, not its sentence this time, but its judgment.

This judgment alludes only to the two grounds on which the appeal is based.
The first is the question of paternity, which is at once dismissed, as being a matter of evidence that has been already decided.

The second ground of appeal is a technical and a legal one.