# Table V.
4. ABSTRACT of Cases brought under COGNIZANCE of the POLICE MAGISTRATES' Courts during a period of ten years 1919-1928.
CASES, HOW Disposed of, and THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS Under each Head.
Year Total number of cases. Total number of defendants. Undecided. Convicted and punished. Discharged. Committed for trial at Supreme Court. Ordered to find security to keep the peace, to be of good behaviour, and to answer any charge. Escaped before being brought for trial at the Magistracy. Punished for preferring false charge or giving false testimony. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. 1919 12,961 13,788 364 1,662 108 146 2 76 1,541 119 136 5 143 19 1920 15,267 15,520 517 13,788 1921 17,374 18,726 695 2,247 161 85 8 5 173 1922 18,535 18,388 614 2,018 76 198 246 30 1923 21,720 22,973 356 3,190 72 246 264 17 1924 27,724 28,708 869 5,154 172 171 376 38 1925 25,790 25,896 1,595 4,099 242 178 323 28 1926 30,516 31,360 1,379 3,540 149 83 463 64 1927 32,122 33,114 1,306 3,501 160 93 521 49 84 6 1928 28,468 26,191 1,005 3,157 222 575 35 4 Total 230,477 234,616 8,690 30,109 1,471 1,420 3,100 287 Average per Year 23,047.7 23,461.6 869 3,010.9 147.1 142 310 28.7