Number of Cases tried.
Number of Persons tried.
RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG during the Year 1897.
SENTENCE.
Charges
147
Cases
Abandoned. Postponed.
CRIMES.
3
3
1
1
2
1
2 12 1 sk
1
2
3
1
Administering stupifying drug with intent to
commit an indictable offence, ..........
Arson,
Assault with intent to commit buggery.
Bribery of a Police Constable,
Buggery..
Conspiring to obstruct and pervert the due course
of public justice,
Demanding money with menaccs,
Embezzlement,
Forgery,
Having forged Bank Note in possession, knowing
same to be forged,
Larceny by a Servant,
Larceny in a dwelling house, -
1
Larceny.
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B
1
Manslaughter,................
Murder,
Obtaining money under false pretences,
Perjury,
Rape,
Returning from banishment,
Robbery with violence,
Setting fire to a dwelling house, there being person
therein,
Uttering a forged letter,
Uttering counterfeit coin,
Women and Girls' Protection Ordinance 1890,
Offences under,.
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2
1
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7
8
1
3
1
16
Wounding with intent to commit murder,
Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm,.
41
57
Convicted.
Acquitted.
Death.
Death Recorded.
Hard Labour
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.
3
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2
1
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2
3
1
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39
17
3
27
1
1
2
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2
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2
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3
3
3
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1 11 11
Of 67 Persons
..56 were indicted.
Recognizance estreated..........
1
10 were not indicted which are included under the heading of "Charges Abandoned," ...10
67 Persons.
:
No. of Persons.
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a. Defendant failed to appear, and recognizance estreated.
b. Prisoner having been found by a Jury empannelled for the purpose was committed to Gaol pending the Orders of His Excellency
the Governor.
Registry, Supreme Court, Hongkong, 10th day of February, 1898.
J. W. NORTON KYSHE, Registrar.