Showing how the cases tried
in the Superior Courts ended.
INDICTMENTS and INFORMATIONS in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG for the Year 1897.
Including Attempts and Conspiracies to commit the several offences.
(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.)
Cases postponed,
Total.
Judgment for the Crown,..
39
4
3
15
10
5
Judgment for the Prisoners,.
16
2
ca
1
5
Prisoner found Insuno,
I
Cases which fell through for want of prosecution or al-
sence of accused, and cases thrown out by the Grand ¦ Jury (Attorney General),
11
3
Registry, Supreme Court, Hongkong, 10th day of February, 1898.
Number Cases tried.
Number of Persons tried.
CRIMES.
RETURN of CRIMINAL CARES tried in the SPREME COURT of HONGKONG during the Year 1897. 354
SENTENCE.
Charges
Cases
Abandoned
Postponed.
Miscellaneous Offences.
3
3
1
1
2
1
2
1
1
Administering stupifying drug with intent to
commit an indictable offence,
Arson,.......
Assault with intent to commit buggery.
Bribery of a Police Constable,
Buggery..
Conspiring to obstruct and pervert the due course
of public justice,
Demanding money with menaces,
Babezzlement,
Forgery,
Having forged Bank Note in possession, knowing
same to be forged,
Larceny,
Larceny by a Servant,
Larceny in a dwelling house,,
Manslaughter,...
Murder,
Obtaining money under false pretences,
Perjury,
Rape,
Returning from banishment,
Robbery with violence,
Setting fire to a dwelling house, there being person
therein,
Uttering a forged letter,
lattering counterfeit coin,
2
3
2
1
2
8
Women and Girls' Protection Ordinance 1890,
Offences under,
3
Ib
Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm... Wounding with intent to commit murder,
67
6
5
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1
6
21
14
12
41
67
J. W. NonrON KYSHE,
Registrar,
COMPARATIVE TABLE showing the NUMBER of OFFENCES, APPREHENSIONS, CONVICTIONS and ACQUITTALS for the last Four Years.
3. For other Offences...............
The Number of Persons acquitted-
1894.
1895.
1896.
1897.
The Number of Convictions in the Superior Courts -
1. For Offences against the Person,
16
17
15
24
2. For Offences against the Property,
1
10
10
2
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2. In the Superior Courts,
Registry, Supreme Court, Hongkong, 10th day of February, 1898.
17
9
32
28
J. W. NORTON KYSHE,
Registrar.
Of 67 Persons
Recognizance estreated.............
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3
Convicted.
Acquitted.
Death,
Death Recorded.
over One Year.
Hard Labour
39
17
27
Õ
1
11 11
10 were not indicted which are included under the heading of "Charges Abandoned," ...10
Registry, Supreme Court, Hongkong, 10th day of February, 1898.
,56 were indicted.
1
67 Persons.
Hard Labour One
Year and under.
Solitary Confinement-
Number of Persons.
Number of Persons.
Privately Plogged-
a. Defendant failed to appear, and recognizance estreated.
b. Prisoner having been found by a Jury empannelled for the purpose was committed to Gaol pending the Orders of His Excellency
the Governor.
J. W. NORTON KYSHE, Registrar.
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No. of Cases.
No. of Persous.
No. of Cases.
No. of Persons.