Number of Cases tried,
Number of Persons tried.
166
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. For Offences against Property, •
3. For other Offences,
The Number of Persons Acquitted-
2. In the Superior Courts,
Registry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 31st December, 1891.
1888.
1889.
1890.
1891.
12
18
13
13
57
40
22
9
30
8
4
47
41
20
EDW. J. ACKROYD,
Registrar.
RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG during the Year 1891.
CRIMES.
SENTENCE.
Convicted,
Acquitted.
Death.
Death Recorded.
over one year.
Hard Labour one Year and under.
Solitary Confinement- Number of Persons.
Number of Persons. Privately Flogged—
No. of Cases.
No. of Persons.
No. of Cases.
No. of Persons.
DONED.
PONED.
CHARGES
CASES
ABAN-
POST-
Hard Labour
2
2
2
Assaulting and occasioning actual bodily harm, Attempt to bribe an Inspector of Police,
Burglary,..
Embezzlement by a clerk,
2
B
---
...
***
1
1
Feloniously and with menaces demanding a certain
valuable security,
1
3
B
Feloniously wounding with intent to do grievous
bodily harm,
3
2
1
1
1
Feloniously and maliciously causing to be taken a
certain poison,
1
QUOI O 1 63 and pol ka pat pad
2
Larceny,
...
2
Larceny and previous convictions, -
2
2
Larceny by a servants,
2
1
Manslaughter,
1
\..
***
2
Murder,
2
Piracy,
1
Returning from deportation,
9
Robbery with violence,.
6
2
Unnatural offence,
2
I wi
2
3
***
***
ID
6
***
***
1
1
***
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Unlawfully bringing into this Colony certain woman
for the purpose of prostitution................
1
1
•*.
30
35
26
9
20
6
6
2
2
...
***
Of 37 Persons only
2 were not indicted which are included under the heading of "Charges Abandoned,”.
2
-
Registry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 31st December, 1891.
37 Persons.
EDw. J. ACKROYD,
Registrar.
TOTAL
NUMBER
TOTAL
NUMBER
OF
OF
CASES.
PRISON-
- ERS.