1841-1886
REPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT
Enclosure in No. 36.
RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES that have been tried in the Supreme Court of Hong Kong during the Year 1853.
Number of Cases. Number of Persons. CRIME. Sentence. Remarks. Death recorded. Convicted. Acquitted. Death. Transportation. Hard Labour, over One Year. Hard Labour, One Year and under. No. of Cases. No. of Persons. No. of Casey. No. of Persons.] Charges Postponed. abandoned. 11 1 Abduction of girls under 16 years of age * 2 Assault 1 Attempting to commit felony 7 Burglary 1 1 5 I 3 Larceny Larceny in a dwelling house 1 Manslaughter 1 Misprision of felony 1 Murder 1 Murder on the high seas Obtaining goods under false pretences Perjury 39 Piracy 11 Piracy with endangering life 22 Piracy with wounding 1 Receiving goods obtained by false pretences 1 4 Receiving stolen goods Robbery with arms 2 2 Robbery with wounding 1 2 1 Stealing and receiving * 1 Wounding with intent to do some grievous bodily harm 32 144 Total * 20 I 19 T I J K 123 8 2 8 1 ((a)1 *** 1 $ 1000 (c) 1 |(6)1 2 *I ANA W TITIS I 1 2 5 13 C dow 1(a) Two years' imprisonment and $100 fine to the Queen, and further imprisonment until such fine be paid; the period of imprisonment to be reduced to one year if the child is restored to its father within a month from the date of sentence.
(b) Prisoners tried on an information for receiving stolen goods.
(c) Strongly recommended to mercy.
(d) Witnesses absent.
(e) Prosecution withdrawn, prisoners convicted, the one for obtaining goods under false pretences, the other for receiving the same.
(Signed)
W. H. ALEXANDER, Deputy Registrar.
N. R. MASSON, Acting Deputy Registrar.
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