# CLASSIFICATION OF OFFENCES.
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## Table III.
ABSTRACT of CASES under COGNIZANCE of the POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURTS during the Year 1925.
CASES, HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.
TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES. TOTAL NUMBER OF PRISONERS. Convicted and Punished. Discharged. Committed for Trial at the Supreme Court. Committed to Prison or Detained pending Orders of H.E. the Governor. Ordered to find Security. Witnesses punished for preferring False Charge or giving wilful False Testimony. Undecided. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. Assaults and other offences against the person, Malicious injuries to property, Gambling, 500 615 289 174 10 20 3 62 28 18 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, 777 2,242 1,908 13 310 1,848 2,040 1,331 138 409 26 84 1,761 1,778 1,416 38 291 24 4,395 7,247 5,755 140 1,291 54 1 49 47 15 27 Offences against Opium Ordinance No. 30 of 1923,... Offences against Masters and Servants Acts, including Acts, relating to indentured coolies,.. Other offences, Total, 16,439 18,327 15,131 1224 1,579 122 F. M. F. Total Number of Prisoners. 25,790 32,358 25,296 1595 4,099 242 178 2## WRITS ISSUED BY THE POLICE MAGISTRATES DURING THE YEAR.
M. F. Summons for Defendants. 7,053 194 Summons for Witnesses. 7,312 33 Notices of Re-hearing. 192 3 Warrants of Arrest. 398 542 Warrants of Distress. 2,218 24 Warrants for Search. 1,872 169 Warrants for entering Gambling Houses. 1,750 62 Magistrates' Orders. 1 1 TOTAL. 17,124 1,361 122 8 136 7 65 8 200 2 **TOTAL. 30,696 1,864 7,312 33*** TOTAL MALES AND FEMALES, 32,560
* Consisting of Offenders not sentenced to Imprisonment.
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