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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
REPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT
Enclosure No. 14
RETURN of the Total Number of FELONY CASES coming under the cognizance of the Hong Kong Police, including those in which no Persons were apprehended.
Year. Total Number of Cases. Remarks. 1850 674 1851 488 Decrease in 1851, 186 cases.(Signed)
C. MAY,
Superintendent of Police.
Police Department, 12th February 1852.
Enclosure No 15.
RETURN OF CRIMINAL CASES that have been tried in the Supreme Court of Hong Kong during the Year 1851.
CRIME. Number of Cases. Number of Persons. Convicted. Acquitted. Death. Death recorded. Transportation. Hard Labour, over One Year. Hard Labour, One year and under. CAS08. Number of Persons. Number of Cases. Number of Sentence. Remarks. Charge postponed. Assault 7 7 7 Assault and false imprisonment 1 1 1 Assault, with intent to rob 1 1 1 Attempting to set fire to a ship 1 2 1 1 1 Burglary 3 3 3 1 2 Burglary and Larceny 1 1 1 1 Child-stealing 1 1 1 Conspiracy to commit Piracy 3 3 3 3 Cutting, with intent to do grievous bodily harm 4 4 4 2 2 Demanding money with menaces 1 1 1 1 Endeavouring to make a revolt 7 12 7 7 Escape 1 1 1 1 Extortion by a constable 3 4 3 1 1 2 False imprisonment 12 12 (a) 7 ** N (A)5 8 Forgery 1 1 1 1 Keeping a bawdy house 1 1 1 1 Larceny 36 51 27 14 11 Manslaughter 4 4 2 1 1 (f) 1 Murder 4 4 4 Obtaining money under false pretences 1 1 1 1 Perjury 1 1 1 1 Piracy 8 8 8 1 1 Piracy, with violence 1 1 1 1 Piracy, with wounding 4 4 2 2 2 Receiving stolen goods 2 2 2 1 1 Robbery 6 8 6 4 2 Robbery, with arms 12 12 8 4 5 3 Robbery in the harbour 1 1 1 1 Selling and purchasing a woman for purpose of prostitution 1 2 1 1 Shooting at, with intent to maim 1 1 1 1 Sodomy 1 1 1 1 Stabbing with intent to do grievous bodily harm 10 31 10 5 5 Total 66 116(a) One prisoner sentenced to pay a fine of 50l in lieu of imprisonment.
(b) Postponed from 1850.
(c) Imprisonment to commence at expiration of former sentence.
(d) Three of the prisoners sentenced to pay a fine of 50 dollars each, and to be further imprisoned till that fine was paid.
(e) Two of these cases were postponed from 1850.
(f) Five of the prisoners were arraigned for murder, but found guilty of manslaughter.
(g) Fined 200 dollars, and to be further imprisoned till it was paid.
One of these cases postponed from 1850.
No jurisdiction.
(Signed)
ROB. DUNDAS CAY, Registrar.
W. H. ALEXANDER, Deputy Registrar.
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