Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
STATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.
Enclosure No. 13.
RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES that have been tried in the Supreme Court of Hong Kong during the Year 1852.
Number of Cases Number of Persons CRIME Sentence Remarks Charge Committed Persons IN JAIL 1 2 Assault 1 3 Assaulting peace officer in execution of his duty 1 2 Assisting in desertion 2 3 Attempting to persuade soldier to desert 1 1 Attempting to set fire to a ship 1 2 Breaking and entering a building within curtilage, and stealing therein 2 3 Burglary 3 10 Burglary and Larceny 2 2 Burglary, with wounding 1 Cattle stealing 2 2 Combining with pirates 2 2 Cutting, with intent to do grievous bodily harm 1 2 Keeping a bawdy house 1 1 Forgery 6 9 Larceny 1 1 Murder on the high seas, aiding and abetting 1 1 Murder on the high seas 1 1 Passing counterfeit coin 9 25 Piracy 6 17 Piracy, with wounding 1 2 Rape 1 1 Receiving goods piratically stolen 3 3 Robbery 2 3 Robbery, with arms 2 Robbery, with violence 2 2 Robbery, with wounding 2 2 Stealing in a dwelling house 1 1 Stealing from the person 1 1 Stabbing with intent to do grievous bodily harm 1 1 Uttering forged receipts Total 73 126 Convicted 101 Acquitted 12 Death 2 Death recorded 1 Transportation 5 Hard Labour, over One Year 42 Hard Labour, One Year and under 12 Number of Cases abandoned 8 Number of Cases postponed 15 (b)(a) Imprisonment without labour.
(b) This case was postponed from the December Sessions of 1851.
(c) Several indictments against same prisoners abandoned.
(d) Previous conviction.
(Signed)
ROBT. DUNDAS Car, Registrar.
W. H. ALEXANDER, Deputy Registrar.