# CLASSIFICATION OF OFFENCES.
Table III.
ABSTRACT of Cases under Cognizance of the Police Magistrates' Courts during the Year 1926.
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. Ordered to find Security. To keep the Peace. To be of Good Behaviour. To answer any Charge. Witnesses punished for preferring False Charge or giving wilful False Testimony. Undecided. Total Number of Prisoners. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. Assaults and other offences against the person, Malicious injuries to property, Gambling, 576 64 249 18 151 5 18 22 25 1 13 1 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, 701 607 1 1,664 1,478 Offences against Opium Ordinance No. 30 of 1923, Offences against Masters and Servants Acts, including Acts, relating to indentured coolies,... Other offences, 1,828 82 1,977 1,456 83 325 18 47 2,057 83 2,070 1,774 203 8 4,729 122 7,806 6,367 1,291 13 Total, 30,516 1379 36,978 31,360 3,540 149WRITS ISSUED BY THE POLICE MAGISTRATES DURING THE YEAR.
Summons for Defendants. Summons for Witnesses. Notices of Re-bearing. Warrants. Arrest. Distress. Search. For entering Gambling Houses. Magistrates' Orders. TOTAL. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. 20,681 1,398 104 15 29,209 66 420 27 448 379 24 1 1,637 27 2 1,852 125 2 37 2,06! 91 to 7,670 136 19 48 7,464 77 10 93 86 21,682 1,120 171 31 112 25 5 120 8 123 35,509 1,592 9,209 56 + 201 27 443 379 48 7,464 37,101* TOTAL MALES AND FEMALES, ...........................
* Consisting of Offenders not sentenced to Imprisonment.