# 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 1924.
CABES, HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD,
Ordered to find Security. WRITS ISSUED BY THE POLICE MAGISTRATES DURING THE YEAR. To keep the Peace. To be of Good Behaviour. Warrants. Summons for Defendants. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. Assaults and other offences against the person, Malicious injuries to property, Gambling, 268 47 23 8 606 8 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, 851 373 BS 30 8,414 24 Offences against Opium Ordinance No. 30 of 1923,... 672 2,355 1,930 28 177 33 Offences against Masters and Servants Acts, including Acts, relating to indentured coolies,.......... 382 2,394 2,705 1,839 121 420 Other offences, 574 2,151 2,178 1,836 240 20 Total 2,747 7,273 6,746 3,731 361 20 9,617 65 Committed for Trial at the Supreme Court. 63 67 Committed to Prison or Detained pending Orders of H.E. the Governor. 32 20 Witnesses punished for preferring False Charge or giving wilful False Testimony. 7 12 Undecided. 26 22 Discharged, 1 3 Convicted and Punished. 28 7 Total Number of Prisoners. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. 5,155 8,460 6,360 97 1,966 37 9,682 58 Total, 27,724 85,484 (28,708 859 | 5,154 172 171 2018 95 16 176 15 34,585 1,090 * TOTAL MALES AND FEMALES,.... 35,675 * Consisting of Offenders not sentenced to Imprisonment. TOTAL. HS-