Number of Cases.
Number of Persons.
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Table III.
Return of CRIMINAL CASES tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG during the year 1907.
Sentence.
Charges
abandoned.
Cases postponed.
CRIME.
2 Aiding and abetting to commit murder,
2 Assault occasioning actual bodily harm,...
Attempted buggery,
Conspiracy.
1
2
1
2
1 1
4
6 Forgery..
1
I
Disobedience of Order of Banishment,.
Falsification of Trade Mark,
1 Highway robbery,
1 Larceny by servant,
Larceny in a dwelling house with menaces
1
6
16
Manslaughter,
4
7
Murder,
4
15
Robbery,
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1 Uttering a forged document,
1
1
Uttering forged notes,
28
56
Convicted.
22N
Acquitted.
Death.
Death recorded.
Hard Labour over
one year.
Hurd Labour one
year and under.
Solitary Confinement.
Privately flogged.
No. of Cases.
No. of Persons.
No. of Cases,
No. of Persons.
2
2
13
3
7
13
13
1
1
1
48
8 9
28
Note.-Indicted
56
Either not indicted or Nolle prosequi entered (included under the heading of
"Charges abandoned ".)
B
Postponed
1
70
(a) Bail estreated.
(b) Nolle prosequi entered.
APPEALS
COMMENCED.
Table IV.
APPELLATE JURISDICTION.
APPEALS TRIED.
Number of Cases.
No. of Cases.
JUDGMENT.
:
3
5
13
1
1
Appellant. Respondent. Pending. Withdrawn.
13
9
3
6
4
Table V.
ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION.
Actions instituted.
Number heard.
Settled or withdrawn.
Pending.
1
I
In 1 action the ship was arrested.
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Table VI.
BANKRUPTCY JURISDICTION.
RETURN of BANKRUPTCIES during the year 1907.