SUPREME COURT AND MAGISTRACY.
COMPARATIVE TABLE showing the Number of Offences, Apprehensions, Convictions, and Acquittals for the last Four Years.
1925 1926 1927 1928 The number of persons apprehended by the Police or summoned before the Police Magistrates 32,358 36,978 38,746 31,276 The number of summary convictions:- 1. For Offences against the person 330 313 398 249 2. Gambling 1,921 1,504 2,140 1,685 3. For Offences against the property other than predial larceny 2,500 1,552 1,713 2,067 4. For other Offences 17,847 22,881 28,409 22,651 5. For Opium Offences 5,895 6,489 6,760 544 The number of persons acquitted in the Inferior Courts 4,339 3,689 3,661 3,379H 11