GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 131.
COURT RETURNS
The following Returns connected with the business of the Superior and Subordinate Courts of the Colony, for the year 1882, are published for general information
Number of Cases
Number of Persons
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By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th April, 1883
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary
RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG, during the Year 1882
CHARGES CASES Convicted Acquitted SENTENCE DEATH DEATH Recorded Penal Servitude Hard Labour over one Year Solitary Confinement, Number of Persons Hand Labour one Year & under Privately Flogged, Number of Cages Number of Persons Number of Cases Number of Persons REMARKS Assault and Wounding, 2 2 2 Attempting to Steal, 1 1 1 Attempt at Burglary, 1 1 1 Attempting to Bribe a member of the Police Force, 1 1 Attempt at Arson, 1 1 1 Assault being armed with Intent to Steal, 3 3 3 Assault and Ravishing, 3 3 1 2 Burglary, 9 9 1 8 Being in possession of certain Articles with Intent to Set Fire, 1 1 1 Entering a Dwelling House at Night with Intent to commit a Felony therein, 2 2 2 Extortion by a Constable, 1 1 Embezzlement by a Servant, 1 1 1 Forcibly detaining a Child with intent to deprive parent of its possession, 3 3 3 Highway Robbery with Violence, 5 5 2 3 Larceny and Previous Convictions, 38 43 11 27 Larceny in a Boat in the Harbour, 1 1 1 Larceny in a Dwelling House, 5 7 2 3 2 Larceny by a Servant, 3 3 3 Larceny from the Person, 10 10 2 8 Larceny on the High Seas, 40 24 11 2 3 2 Larceny of a Letter, 2 3 2 Label, 1 1 1 Manslaughter, 4 4 1 3 Murder, 1 1 1 Perjury, 2 2 2 Piracy, 10 Obtaining Goods by False Pretences, 1 2 1 1 Obtaining Goods on a Forged Document, 2 3 1 2 Purchasing a Woman for the Purpose of Prostitution, 3 3 3 Pretending to exercise Enchantment and Sorcery 1 1 1 Receiving Stolen Goods, 3 2 2 Robbery with Violence, 3 3 1 2 Robbery from the Person with Violence, 6 6 1 5 Rape 2 2 2 Shooting with Intent to Murder, 3 3 3 Unlawfully Wounding 4 4 4 Unlawfully and by fraud taking away a Child with Intent to deprive parent of its possession, 1 1 1 Unlawfully detaining a Woman in a House against her will, 1 1 1 Unlawfully and by force detaining a Girl for the Purpose of Prostitution, 1 1 1 Unlawfully Wounding to prevent Arrest, 1 1 1 Uttering Counterfeit Coin 1 1 1 Wounding with Intent to do grevious Bodily Harm, 2 2 2 Total 163 163 2 49 108 3 3 6 Number Tried, 187 Convicted, 124 Acquitted, 38 Recognizance Estreated, 1 Charges Abandoned, Cases Postponed, 21 Hongkong, 20th March, 1883 EDW J ACKROYD, Regrets ar