# Table VII.
4.—ABSTRACT of CASES brought under COGNIZANCE of the POLICE MAGISTRATES' Courts during a period of ten years 1922-1931,
Cases, how disposed of, and the Number of Male and Female Defendants under each head.
Year Total number of cases Convicted and sentenced 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 making false charge or giving false evidence Undecided Total number of defendants M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. 1922 18,535 9,614 2,018 76 198 246 30 21 20,835 722 1923 21,720 12,075 356 3,190 72 246 261 17 26,773 450 1924 27,724 18,708 859 5,154 172 171 6 376 38 34,585 1,090 1925 25,790 15,896 1,595 4,099 242 178 2 323 23 11 30,696 1,864 1926 Total 80,016 124,285 Average per Year 25,455.1 960.6 3,600.2 142.2 175.2 1.6 322.4 34.4 29,679.6 1,143.6 1927 32,122 23,114 1,806 3,501 160 93 1 521 49 1 1928 28,468 16,191 1,005 3,157 222 84 6 575 5 35 1929 31,568 17,308 1,323 4,872 203 135 6 461 1930 38,646 28,387 2,024 5,931 454 18 5 410 52 1931 38,578 1,892 4,233 216 66 1 670 60 7 Total 169,367 155,296 33,873.4 31,069.2 Average per Year 4,338.8 259 5 18 2,637 250 Grand Total for the ten Years 293,652 282,573 12,353 328,928 14,818 Average per Year 29,865.2 28,257.3 1,235.3 3,969.5 200.6 18 4,249 422 8 1,077 24 32,892.8 1,481.8