CLASSIFICATION OF OFFENCES.
Total NUMBER OF CASES.
TOTAL NUMBER OF PRISONERS.
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Table III.
ABSTRACT of Cases under Cognizance of the POLICE MAGISTRATES' Courts during the Year 1928.
CASES, 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. To answer any Charge. Warrants. Summons for Defendants. Summons for Witnesses. Notices of Re-hearing. Arrest. Distress. Search. For entering Gambling Houses. Magistrates' Orders. TOTAL. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. Assaults and other offences against the person, Malicious injuries to property, Gambling, 149 9 14 1 189 621 229 20 31 32 1,849 37 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, 580 1,886 1,652 33 5 191 Offences against Opium Ordinance No. 30 of 1923, Offences against Masters and Servants Acts, including Acts, relating to indentured coolies, 1 2,459 2,683 1,983 58 500 63 8 Other offences, 2,475 2,551 2,177 68 295 563 614 508 36 63 37 26 14 Co 14 : 4 21,829 22,863 19,608 789 1,937 136 41 20 29 C Total, 28,468 31,276 26,191 1005 3,157 222 84 1 6 1 2,559 124 3,555 36 Witnesses punished for preferring False Charge or giving wilful False Testimony. 12,738 64 6 249 -Undecided. M. 1. M. F. M. 81 595 191 2 6 2 5 555 86 14,374 *** 2 27 1 3 1 2,498 72 572 42 26 116 *** 22,028 961 135 * TOTAL MALES AND FEMALES, * Consisting of Offenders not sentenced to Imprisonment. 30,148 1,263 (12,738 64 6 249 81 595 бой 31,411 86 14,374