SUPREME COURT AND MAGISTRACY.
COMPARATIVE TABLE showing the Number of Offences, Apprehensions, Convictions, and Acquittals for the last Four Years.
1923 1924 1925 1926 Number of persons apprehended by the Police or summoned before the Police Magistrates, 27,123 35,484 32,358 36,978 The number of summary convictions: 1. For Offences against the person 264 411 330 313 2. Gambling 1,754 1,958 1,921 1,504 3. For Offences against the property other than predial larceny 1,368 2,013 1,500 1,552 4. For other Offences 11,818 18,728 17,847 22,881 5. For Opium Offences 3,218 6,457 5,895 6,489 The Number of persons acquitted in the Inferior Courts 3,262 5,326 4,339 3,689- H 11.