# Table V.
4.— ABSTRACT of Cases brought under COGNIZANCE of the POLICE MAGISTRATES' Courts during a period of ten years 1920-1929.
CASES, HOW Disposed of, and the Number of Male and Female PRISONERS UNDER EACH Head.
Year Total number of cases Convicted and punished. Discharged. Committed for trial at Supreme Court. Committed to prison or detained pending order of His Excellency the Governor. Ordered to find security To keep the peace, to be of good behaviour, and to answer any charge. Did not appear and absconded. Escaped before being brought for trial at the Magistracy. Escaped. Punished for preferring false charge or giving false testimony. Undecided. Total number of defendants. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. 1920 15,267 15,520 517 1,511 119 136 10 5 143 19 1921 17,374 18,726 693 1922 18,585 18,338 614 2,247 151 85 8 173 5 1923 21,720 1924 27,724 28,708 339 6,154 Total 100,620 104,267 3,041 14,150 836 22,975 256 3,190 72 240 264 17 172 171 6 376 38 1925 25,790 20,896 1,595 1926 30,516 1927 31,360 1,379 4,099 1928 28,168 26,191 1,005 1929 31,558 187 Total 148,454 143,869 6,008 19,169 970 1,578 12 2,283 225 456 6 45 Average per Year 23,600-8 (28,778.8 1,321-6 8,833.8 1952 141-6 Grand Total for the 10 Years 219,074 248,136 9,649 33,319 1,566 1,409 23 21 3,485 834 10 10 Average per Year '24,907-4 | 24.8'36 964-9 | 3,381-9 | 156,6 (140,9 2·3 2.1 348-5 33-4 G L(The rest of the table data is not properly formatted and some values are missing or represented with symbols or characters that don't make sense in the context, e.g., "الي", "毖", "$4", "075", "35!", etc.)