RETURN OF CRIMINAL CASES that have been brought under the CoGNIZANCE of the SUPREME COURT, during the last Ten Years.
479
Charges Abandoned.
Postponed.
Number Number
YEAR.
of Cases.
of Convicted. Acquitted. Persons.
No. of Cases.
No. of Persons.
No. of Cases.
No. of Persous.
1890,
59
80
43
20
1891,
32
37
26
9
1892,
30
44
18
17
1893,
43
33
16
1894,
36
44
21
17
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Total,......
200
262
141
79
23
42
1895,
26
39
23
9
1896,
64
60
27
26
4
6
(a) 1897,
52
67
39
17
1898,
36
54
39%
10
5
1899,
65
98
77
12
9
Total,......
243
318
205
74
32
38
Average of 1st Period,
40
523
283
153
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Average of 2nd {
Period,
483
633
41
143
63
73
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7. In one case the recognizance estreated.
7. In two cases the recognizance estreated.
Registry, Supreme Court, Hongkong, 15th day of January, 1900.
A. SETH, Acting Registrar',
INDICTMENTS and INFORMATIONS in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG for the Year 1899.
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.)
Total.
Murder.
Judgment for the Crown,
77
6
Judgment for the Prisoners,
Prisoner found Insane,
12
Cases which fell through for want of proscention or ab- sence of acensed, and cases thrown out by the Grand
Jury (Attorney General),...
Cases postponed,
98
:
:
Manslaughter.
Attempt at Murder.
Concealment of Birth.
Abortion.
:
:
:
:
Registry, Supreme Court, Hongkong, 15th day of January, 1900.
Rape.
Unnatural Crimes.
Robbery with Violence.
Other Offences against the Person.
Offences against Property,
Miscellaneous Offences.
ON
1
34
6
18
10
=
41
:
11 24
A. SETH,
11
Acting Registrar,
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