SUPREME COURT AND MAGISTRACY.
COMPARATIVE TABLE showing the Number of Offences, Apprehensions, Convictions, and Acquittals for the last Four Years.
1926 1927 1928 1929 The number of persons apprehended by the Police or summoned before the Police Magistrates 36,978 38,746 31,276 34,368 The number of summary convictions :—— 1. For Offences against the person 313 398 249 288 2. Gambling 1,504 2,140 1,685 1,626 3. For Offences against the property other than predial larceny 1,552 1,713 2,067 2,111 4. For other Offences 22,881 23,109 22,651 23,874 5. For Opium Offences 6,489 6,760 544 732 The number of persons acquitted in the Inferior Courts 3,689 3,661 3,379 5,075H 12