SUPREME COURT AND MAGISTRACY.
COMPARATIVE TABLE showing the Number of Offences, Apprehensions, Convictions, and Acquittals for the last Four Years.
1924 1925 1926 1927 The number of persons apprehended by the Police or summoned before the Police Magistrates 35,484 32,358 36,976 38,746 The number of summary convictions:- 1. For Offences against the person 411 330 313 398 2. Gambling 1,958 1,921 1,504 2,140 3. For Offences against the property other than predial larceny 2,013 2,500 1,552 1,713 4. For other Offences 18,728 17,847 22,881 23,409 5. For Opium Offences 6,457 5,895 6,489 6,760 The number of persons acquitted in the Inferior Courts 5,326 4,339 3,689 3,661– H 11