INDICTMENTS and INFORMATIONS in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG for the Year 1900.
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.
Manslaughter.
Attempt at Murder.
Concealment of Birth.
Judgment for the Crown,
73
2
3
Judgment for the Prisoners,
Prisoner found Insane,
14
Cases which fell through for want of prosecution or ab- sence of accused, and cases thrown out by the Grand Jury (Attorney General),..
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Cases postponed,
91
3
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Abortion.
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12
Rape.
Unnatural Crimes.
Robbery with Violence.
Other Offences against the Person.
Offences against Property.
Miscellaneous Offences.
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1
1
37
12
7
2
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1
1
1
1
44
15
8
17
Registry, Supreme Court, Hongkong, 7th day of January, 1901.
J. W. NORTON KYSHE, Registrar.
RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG during the Year 1900.
Number of Cases tried,
Nuraber of Persons tried.
CRIME.
Convicted.
Acquitted.
1. P
12
Assault with intent to rob,
Attempting to commit the abominable crime of
buggery,
Being a member of an unlawful society,
5 a Bribery of a public servant,.
Demanding money with menaces,
3
Forgery,
4
3
1
2
3
Housebreaking and receiving stolen goods,
Importing counterfeit coins,
Larceny,
Larceny as a clerk,
Manslaughter,
Murder,
Obtaining money by false pretences,.
Robbery with violence..
Throwing corrosive fluid with intent to burn,
1
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122
1
Perjury,
Rape.
Robbery,
10
1
LAN UN
2
37
2
3
5
Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm,
- 10
1
5
71
14
Unnatural offence,...
Women and Girls' Protection Ordinance, 1890,
Offences under,..
Death.
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SENTENCE.
Death Recorded.
Hard Labour
over One Year.
Hard Labour One Year and under.
Solitary Confinement- Number of Persons.
Privately Flogged-
Number of Persons.
No. of Cases.
No. of Persons.
No. of Cases.
No. of Persons.
Charges
Cases
Abandoned.
Postponed.
1
2
2
2
1
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3
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2
3
2
37
28
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4
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43
87
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59
10
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28 4 4
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Of 91 Persons
.87 were indicted.
Four were not indicted, which are included under the heading of "Charges Abandoned,” 4
91 Persons.
a. & b. In two cases the recognizance estreated.
Registry, Supreme Court, Hongkong, 7th day of January, 1901.
J. W. NORTON KYSHE, Registrar.
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