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CHARGES ABAN-
CASES
POST-
DONED.
PONED.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND MAY, 1891.
RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG during the Year 1890.
SENTENCE.
Acquitted.
Death.
:
Number of Cases tried.
Number of Persons tried.
CRIMES.
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
2
Embezzlement,
1
Arson,
Assault,
Assault with intent to rob,
Assault occasioning actual bodily harm,
Bribery,
Conspiracy,
Demanding money,.
Embezzlement by a servant,
Escape,
Hi Ni Nii Nii
2
Convicted.
2
Feloniously assaulting,
2
2
Feloniously breaking and entering a dwelling house
and committing a felony therein,
1
1
1
Feloniously forging a certain order for the payment
of money with intent to defraud,
I
2
2
Feloniously obtaining goods by virtue of a forged
order....
2
1
Feloniously setting fire to a dwelling house,
1
1
Feloniously shooting with intent to do grievous bodily
harm,
1
4
4
Feloniously and unlawfully taking away a child under
the age of 14 years,
4
3
3
Feloniously wounding with intent to do grievous bo-
dily harm,
3
Kidnapping,
1
1
Larceny,
1
1
Larceny and previous conviction,
7
8
Larceny and Receiving,
1
1
Larceny as a Public servant,
3
3
Larceny by a clerk,
1
Larceny by a servant,
1
1
Larceny in a dwelling house,..
2
2
Manslaughter,
al
Murder,
1
1
Piracy,
1
Robbery,
3
10
1
1
1
1
1
dily harm,
1
1
Obtaining money under false pretences,
Robbery from the person with violence,
Stealing in a dwelling house with menaces,
Unlawfully being in possession of counterfeit coin, Unlawfully and maliciously inflicting grievous bo-
Unlawfully wounding,
52
63
years.
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43
20
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3
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25
18
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1
3
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3
7
17
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80 Persons.
Of 80 Persons only
.......... ..63 were tried.
17 were not indicted which are included under the heading of charges abandoned,..............17
Epw. J. ACKROYD, Registrar.
a. In this case the prisoner was convicted and sentenced to death, the sentence was commuted to imprisonment with hard labour for 20
;
Registry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 10th February, 1891.
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