CLASSIFICATION OF OFFENCES.
TOTAL NUMBER
OF CASES.
TOTAL NUMBER OF PRISONERS.
Table III.
ABSTRACT of Cases under Cognizance of the POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURTS during the Year 1922.
CASES, HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.
Ordered to find Security. Convicted and Punished. Discharged. Committed for Trial at the Supreme Court. Committed to Prison or Detained pending Orders of H.E. the Governor. Assaults and other offences against the person, Malicious injuries to property, Gambling, M. 22; F. 0 M. 444; F. 13 M. 225; F. 13 M. 41; F. 0 M. 58; F. 20 Offences against property other than malicious injuries to property or predial larceny, Offences against Revenue Acts, Highway Acts, Health Acts, and other Acts relating to the social economy of the Colony, M. 1; F. 0 M. 426; F. 32 M. 1,212; F. 77 M. 68; F. 0 M. 321; F. 22 Offences against Opium Ordinance No. 4 of 1914 and No. 6 of 1922, M. 0; F. 0 M. 1,640; F. 1,324 M. 1,805; F. 4 M. 0; F. 0 M. 0; F. 0 Offences against Masters and Servants Acts, including Acts relating to indentured immigrants, M. 0; F. 0 M. 4,829; F. 190 M. 4,394; F. 214 M. 3,983; F. 0 M. 87; F. 0 Other offences, M. 0; F. 0 M. 1,878; F. 34 M. 2,839; F. 408 M. 2,310; F. 0 M. 34; F. 0 Total, M. 23; F. 0 M. 9,450; F. 750 M. 10,291; F. 214 M. 9,079; F. 0 M. 605; F. 72 To keep the Peace. M. F. Total, M. 1,924; F. 182WRITS ISSUED BY THE POLICE MAGISTRATES DURING THE YEAR.
M. F. Summons for Defendants. 5,742 22 Summons for Witnesses. 154 Notices of Re-hearing. 10 Distress. 1,161 Search. 56 1 Arrest. 1,177 For entering Gambling Houses. 2 Magistrates' Orders. 35 Warrants. 1,728 To be of Good Behaviour. 77 To answer any Charge. 4,188 Witnesses punished for preferring False Charge or giving wilful False Testimony. 206 Undecided. 2,733 106 TOTAL. 7,496 100 307 TOTAL MALES AND FEMALES, 21,116 Consisting of Offenders not sentenced to Imprisonment.#