Number of Cases tried.
Number of Persons tried,
COMPARATIVE TABLE showing the NUMBER of OFFENCES, APPREHENSIONS, CONVICTIONS and ACQUITTALS for the lust Four Years.
The Number of Convictions in the Superior Courts--
1. For Offences against the Person,....
2. For Offences against Property,
3. For other Offences,
The Number of Persons Acquitted—
2. In the Superior Courts................
Registry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 31st December, 1891.
1888.
1889.
1890. 1891.
12
18
13
13
57
40
22
9
30
6
8
#
47
41
20
20
9
EDW. J. ACKROYD,
Registrar.
RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG during the Year 1891.
CRIMES.
2
I
1
Assaulting and occasioning actual bodily harm,
Attempt to bribe an luspector of Police, Burglary,...
Embezzlement by a clerk,
Feloniously and with menaces demanding a certain
valuable security........
Feloniously wounding with intent to do grievous
bodily harm,.-.
Feloniously and maliciously causing to be taken a
certain poison,
Larceny and previous convictions,
1
ទ
I
8
30
35
2
Larceny,...
2
Larceny by a servants,
Manslaughter,.
2
Murder,
2
Piracy,
Beturning from deportation,
9
Robbery with violence,
Unnatural offence,..................
Unlawfully bringing into this Colony certain woman
for the purpose of prostitution....
Of 37 Persons only
$7
SENTENCE.
Convicted,
Acquitted.
Death.
Death Recorded.
-212
:
*
- mal wi
over one Year.
Hard Labour one
Year and under.
Solitary Confinement-- Number of T'ersons.
Number of Persons.
Privately Flogged.
No. of Cases.
No. of Persons.
No. of Cases.
No. of PersoDS,
CHARGES
CASES
ARAN-
Post-
DONED.
FORED.
Hard Labour
9
20
6
2 were not indicted which are included under the heading of "Charges Abandoned,"... 2
Registry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 31st December, 1891.
128
:
:
..35 were tried.
37 Persons.
9
:
:
E
2 2
EDW. J. ACKROYD,
Registrar.
411
141
14
182
2.060
186
0,358
...
ABSTRACT of CASES under COGNIZANCE of the POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURT during the Year 1891.
CASES, HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER or MALE AND FRAME: PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.
Discharged.
Committed
for Trial at
the Supreme
Conri.
Committed
to Prison, or
A
DT.
Governer.
nf 11. E, the
penting Ordersį
Detained
Ordered to find Security.*
To keep
the
Pence.
F
M. F.
To be
of good
Behn-
viour.
To
BDSwer
ABD
My Charge.
false Charge
preferring
punished for
Witnesses
Papa Jo
Testimony,
wilful false
པུ
Undecided.
Number
Total
10
WRITS ISSUED BY THE POLICE Magistrates DURING THE YEAR 1891,
Prisoners,
Summons
for
Warrants.
Defendants.
for
Witnesses.
Notices
of
Re-hearing,
Árrest.
Distress.
Search,
Fer
Σαμαράς
House.
Gambling
Magis-
trates'
Orders.
TOTAL
NUMBER
Gran
LUNDNA
Aug 20
TOTAL
DURING THE
YEAR 1891.
Punished.
pun
Convicted
TOTAL
1OTAL NUMBER:
NUMBER
CASES,
PRISON-
ERS.
M..
F.
25
2
1 P
M. P.
149
TOTAL MALES AND FEMALES,.
M.
215,693 689
............16,382
• Consisting of Offenders not sentenced to Imprisonment.
3,597
16,382
JL. P.
な
F.
16,882 | 18,438 591 1,906 134 40
bi
... 123!
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