RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES that have been brought under the COGNIZANCE of the SUPREME Court, during the last Ten Years.
501
Charges Abandoned.
Postponed.
YEAR.
Number Number
of
of Cases. Persons.
Convicted. Acquitted.
No. of Cases.
No. of Persons.
No. of Cases.
No. of Persons.
(a) 1889,
1890,
1891,
1892,
1893,
28283
92
143
64
41
24
37
59
80
43
20
7
17
37
26
9
30
44
18
17
13
57
33
16
...
Total,
256
361
184
103
1894,
36
44
21
1895,
26
39
23
1896,
64
60
27
(b) 1897,
52
67
39
1898,
36
54
39c
Total,
214
264
149
REQEA je
41
73
L
17
6
6
1
5
9
5
26
4
6
1
17
11
11
10
4
5
79
30
35
333
2
6
Average of 1st Period,
51
721
364
20%
81
143
Average of 2nd}
424
52#
29
154
6
to
03
Period,
a. In one case the recognizance estreated; this case is included in the total, but not in any other of the above headings. 6. In one case the recognizance estreated.
e. In two cases the recognizance estreated.
Registry, Supreme Court, Hongkong, 4th day of January, 1899.
A. SETH, Acting Registrar.
INDICTMENTS and InformatioNS in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG for the Year 1898,
Including Attempts and Conspiracies to commit the several offences.
Showing how the cases tried
in the Superior Courts ended.
(Each Prisoner tried counts as a separate case; where a large number of Prisoners have been convicted together, the fact is mentioned in a note.)
Abortion.
Rape.
Unnatural Crimes.
Robbery with Violence.
Other Offences against the Person,
Offences against Property,
Miscellaneous Offences.
Murter.
Manslaughter.
Attempt at Murder.
Concealment of Birth.
Total.
Judgment for the Crown,.
39
Judgment for the Prisoners,.
10
Prisoner found Insane,
Cases which fell through for want of prosecution or ab- sence of accused, and cases thrown out by the Graud Jury (Attorney General),
Cases postponed,
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54
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Registry, Supreme Court, Hongkong, 4th day of January, 1899.
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A. SETH, Arting Registrar.