1883. 1884. 1885.1886.
SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE OF 21st MAY, 1887. 585
COMPARATIVE TABLE showing the NUMBER of OFFENCES, APPREHENSIONS, CONVICTIONS and ACQUITTALS for the last Four Years.
The Number of Convictions in the Superior Courts :-
1. For offences against the Person,
2. Prædial Larceny,..
3. For offences against property other than Prædial Larceny,
4. For other offences,
The Number of Persons acquitted :-
2. In the Superior Courts,
27
56 36
2
272
22
16
61
42
20
1
26
20
22
20
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RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG, during the year 1886.
Number of Cases.
Number of Persons.
CRIMES.
Convicted.
Acquitted.
Death,
Death Recorded.
Penal Servitude.
over one Year. Hard Labour
Hard Labour one
Year and under.
SENTENCE.
Number of Persons. Solitary Confinement,
Number of Persons.
Privately Flogged,
No. of Cases.
No. of Persons.
No. of Cases.
No. of Persons.
CHARGES
CASES
ABANP
POST-
DONED.
PONED.
:
:
1
1
2
Abduction from the Colony for the purpose of steal-
ing money,
2 Administering stupefying drug,.
1
1
Assault and Robbery from the person,.
1
3
Assault and wounding with intent to rob,
3
1
1
Assault with intent to commit Buggery,
1
Assault with intent to commit Rape,
1
Attempting to shoot with intent to resist lawful
apprehension,.
1
1
1
Bringing into the Colony a woman with intent to sell
her for the purpose of prostitution,
1
1
1
Breaking and entering a dwelling house with intent
to commit a felony,
1
7
13
Burglary and receiving stolen goods,
13
1
1
Child stealing,
1
a3 4
Demanding money with menaces,..
3
2 2
Embezzlement.
2
1
1
1
Embezzlement by a servant,
1 Forging a certain cheque or order with intent to
1
defraud,
Larceny,
3
7
Larceny in a dwelling house with menaces,
1
1
Larceny of Post Letter,
1
1
Larceny from the person,
2
2
Larceny by a servant
1
1
Larceny and previous conviction,..
1
1 Libel,
1
Manslaughter,
63
.3
Murder,
1
2
2 Obtaining goods under false pretences,
2
4 Obtaining money under false pretences,
4
4 Perjury,....................
1
3
Piracy,
2 3
Receiving stolen property,
3
1
2 Robbery and Larceny from the person,
2
1
11
Robbery and Larceny in a dwelling house,...
2
3
4 Robbery from the person with violence,
3
1
I
3
B
1
2
Shooting with intent to prevent apprehension,
1 Shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm,..
Unlawfully imprisonment and detention for the pur-
pose of emigration,.
Unlawful possession of counterfeit coin and forged
Bank notes,
1 Unlawfully and feloniously receiving certain Bank
Notes,
7 Unlawfully and maliciously wounding,
1 Wounding with intent to murder..............
1
3
1
58
90
1
2
I
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9
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59 20
79 were tried.
Of 90 Persons only
10 were not indicted, which are included under the
heading of charges abandoned,
and
1 Recognizance estreated,
1
90 Persons.
:
:
1
1
:
3
2
:
:
:
:
:
:
1
I
1
1
1
:
121
:
:
:
:
45
8
6
Convicted,.. Acquitted,
---Charges abandoned,
Recognizance estreated, Case postponed,
a. In one case the Prisoner did not appear his recognizance estreated.
b. In one case the Acting Attorney General accepted the plea of guilty of manslaughter.
Registry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 28th January, 1887.
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1
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2
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16
26
1
1
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79 Persons.
26
1
29
1
19
Total,.....
107 Persons.
ALFRED G. WISE, Acting Registrar,