No. 16.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH FEBRUARY, 1862.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Returns connected with the business of the Superior and Subordinate Courts of the Colony for the Year 1861, are published for general information.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th February, 1862.
W. H. ALEXANDER, Acting Colonial Secretary.
RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES that have been tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG, during the year 1861.
No. of Cases.
No. of Persons.
CRIMB.
Convicted.
Acquitted.
Death.
Death Recorded.
Penal Servitude.
Hard labour over one
year.
Hard labour one year
and under.
REMARKS.
Charges Abandoned.
Postponed.
Number Number
of
of Cases. Persons.
Number Number
of
of Cases. Persons.
2 Administering Stupifying drugs with intent, &c.,.........
1
1
1 Assault,
1
2
Assault and False Imprisonment,..
2 Assault and Wounding, .
Assault with intent to commit sodomy,
9 Assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm,
Attempting to drown,..
Being found at night armed and conspiring to commit
felony,
4 Being found at night with Housebreaking Imple-
ments,
7 Burglary,..
1 Burglary with Wounding,
Child Stealing,
3
6 Conspiracy,
Conspiracy and Extortion,
2 Conspiring to detain Persons to be sent away as
Slaves,.....
Contracting to carry Slaves, .
3 Cutting and wounding with intent to do grievous
bodily harm,
***
To enter into recognizance in £20 to appear for Judgment if called
upon within six months.
1 Fined Forty shillings.
2
Gi
1
3
3
:
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::
3
One fined $150.
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&&
2
-
18
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3
2
3 Embezzlement by Servant,..
1 Escape from Imprisonment,.
la
1
b
5
5 Extortion,
2
I
2 Forgery,
1 Extortion and obtaining Money on false pretences,
21
20
1
19 Larceny,
15
4
5
12 Larceny and Receiving,
7
5
26
2
6
9 Larceny in a Boat,
9
10
12 Larceny in a Dwelling-house,
10
2
1
3 Manslaughter,
3
*
10
41 Murder,
27 14
5
18e
:
1 Murder and Robbery,.
3 Obtaining Money on false pretences,..
Obtaining Money on false pretences, and Conspiracy, Perjury,
1
3
2
*
18
16
5
5
1
:
I
18 Piracy and Murder,.
5 Piracy with Wounding,.
1
1 Receiving Stolen Goods,.
2
4 Robbery,
1
1 Robbery and Assault,.
3
3 Robbery being armed,
11
11 Robbery from the Person,.
2 Robbery in a Boat, being armed,
5
15 Robbery in the Harbour,.
3
6 Robbery with Arms,..
T
2 Robbery with Violence,.
3
4 Robbery with Wounding,..
for Slaves,.....
2
119 231
Serving on board Ship intended to detain Persons
2 Stabbing with intent to do grievous bodily harm,
A
11
11
627
:
1
1
165
66
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:
72
624
?
1
91
31 29
a. Without Hard Labour.
6. Pleaded Guilty, and sentenced to Penal Servitude on another charge of Robbery with Wounding-
c. Five days' imprisoninent without Iurd Labour.
d. Without Hard Labour.
e. Twenty-two convicted of Manslaughter.
f. Convicted on another charge.
g. Convicted on another charge of Piracy and Murder.
19
19
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64
If
1
18g
:
1
40
75
F. S. HUFFUM, Acting Registrar.
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