No. 65.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Returns connected with the business of the Superior and Subordinate Courts of the Colony, for the year 1879, are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th March, 1880.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG, during the Year 1879.
CRIMES Number of Cases Number of Persons Convicted Acquitted Death Death recorded Penal Servitude Hard labour, over 1 Year Hard labour, 1 Year and under Solitary Confinement Privately Flogged CHARGES ABANDONED POSTPONED Assault 3 4 4 3 Assault occasioning actual Bodily harm 4 8 8 1 5 2 Assault with Intent to prevent Arrest 2 2 2 2 Attempt to commit an Unnatural Offence 3 5 2 1 2 Being found at Night with House-breaking Implements 1 1 1 1 Breach of Conditional Pardon 2 2 2 2 Breaking, entering and stealing in a Dwelling House 5 9 9 4 3 1 Breaking out of a Dwelling House having been there with Intent to steal 1 1 1 1 Burglary 4 6 6 2 2 Conspiracy to defraud 2 2 2 Counterfeiting Coin 1 1 1 1 Child Stealing 1 1 1 1 Entering a Dwelling at Night with Intent to commit a Felony therein 1 1 1 1 Embezzlement 1 1 1 1 Escape 1 1 1 1 Forcibly detaining a Woman with Intent to sell her 1 1 1 1 Highway Robbery with Violence 4 6 4 3 Harbouring a Woman for the Purpose of Prostitution 2 2 2 2 Larceny 16 16 16 8 7 Larceny by a Servant 11 11 11 7 4 Larceny in a Dwelling House 12 15 12 3 5 2 Larceny on board Ship in the Harbour 3 5 3 1 2 Manslaughter 1 1 1 1 Murder 1 2 1 1 Leading and taking away a Woman out of the Colony for the Purpose of Prostitution 1 2 1 1 Murder on the High Seas 3 3 3 3 Murder, the deceased having been within three months previously employed on board a British ship as a Seaman 1 2 1 1 Perjury 2 2 2 2 Neglecting to provide Infant Child with Necessaries of Life 1 1 1 1 Piracy 3 3 3 3 Piracy with Violence 1 1 1 1 Receiving Goods piratically stolen 1 1 1 1 Receiving Stolen Goods 18 18 18 10 7 Returning from Deportation 2 2 2 2 Robbery from the Person with Violence 5 5 5 2 1 Selling a Woman For the Purpose of Prostitution 2 2 2 2 Robbery, being armed 4 6 4 3 Robbery from the Person 21 23 21 1 11 3 Robbery from the Person, being armed 3 7 3 3 Unlawfully Wounding 3 5 3 2 Wounding with Intent to do grievous Bodily Harm 4 12 4 2 1 Unlawfully and by force bringing into this Colony a Child for the Purpose of Selling her 2 4 2 2 Unlawfully detaining a Woman for the Purpose of Emigration 1 2 1 1 Unlawfully giving False Statement to Registrar General 1 1 1 1 Total 148 202 183 4 2 10 51 78 36 2* In this Case the Prisoner was sentenced to 9 days' Simple Imprisonment and to pay a Fine of Fifty Dollars.
C. B. PLUNKET,
Registrar.