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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Returns connected with the business of the Superior and Subordinate Courts of the Colony, for the year 1879, are published for general information.
Sumber of Cases.
Number of Persous.
By Command,
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th March, 1880.
RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG, during the Year 1879.
CHARGES
CASES
SANTENOR.
| ABANDONED. POSTPONED.
CRIMES
3
4 Assault,
& Assault occasioning actual Bodily Havin,
2 Assault with Intent to prevent Arrest, ....
1 Attempt to commit an tinostaral Offence,.
21
4
Being found at Night with Honse-breaking Implements,
Breach of Conditional Pardon.......
Breaking, entering and stealing in a Dwelling flouse....
1 Breaking out of a Dwelling House having been there with latent to steel,
6 Barglaryaud,
Conspiracy to defraud,
Counterfeiting Coin,
Child Stealing,
1
Entering
1
* Dwelling at Night with Intent to commit a Felony therein, Fanbezzlement,
! Forcibly detaining a Woman with Intent to sell her,
Highway Robbery with Violence.....
2 Harbouring & Woomu for the Purpose of Prostitution,
10 16 Larceny,
1
12
1 Larceny by a Servant,
Larceny in a Dwelling House,......
Larceny on board Ship in the Harbour, ............................
22 Loading and taking away a Woman out of the Colony for the Purpose
1
of Prostitution,.
1 Manslaughter.........
Murder,
3 Murder on the High Seas,
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Murder, the deceased having been within three months previously
employed on board a British ship as a Seaman,
1. Neglecting to provide Infant Child with Necessaries of Life,
Perjury,
2 Piracy.
8 Piracy with Violence,.
2
Receiving Goods piratically stolen,
13 Receiving Stolen Goods,
2 | Returning from Deportation,
4 Robbery, being armed,.......
23 Robbery from the Persou,
Robbery from the Person with Violence,..
7 Rothery from the Person, being armed, ...........................................
2 Selling Woman for the Purpose of Prostitution,...
Unlawfully Wounding,
12 Wounding with latent to do grievous Bodily Harm..
Unlawfully and by force bringing into this Colony a Child for the
Purpose of Selling her,
2 Unlawfully detaining a Woman for the Purpose of Emigration,..
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Unlawfully giving False Statement to Registrar General, ......
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In this Case the Prisoner was sentenced to 9 days' Simple Imprisonment and to pay a fiue of Fifty Dollare.
C. B. PLUNKET,
Registrar.