# Table IV.
ABSTRACT OF CASES UNDER COGNISANCE OF THE POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURTS DURING THE YEARS 1931 AND 1932, HONG KONG.
Cases, how disposed of, and the Number of Male and Female Adult Defendants under each Head.
Discharged. Bound over without further penalty. Committed for trial at the Supreme Court. Committed to Prison or Detained pending Orders of H.E. the Governor. To keep the peace and be of good behaviour. To answer any charge. Previously convicted, Under police supervision. Total. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. OFFENCES AGAINST INDIVIDUALS (a)— Against their property. Total No. of charges. 829 985 Total No. of Defendants. 818 180 Convicted and sentenced. 53 101 1. Larceny Simple 38 92 16 1 2 41 19 Stealing from the person ...... Embezzlement and fraudulent conversion 58 58 Robbery ......... Piracy Burglary and housebreaking 214 76 Demanding with menaces False pretences and cheating 127 10 Receiving and possession of stolen goods 42 2. Arson、、、 599 20 3. Malicious damage 29 2 4. Forgery....... 5. Other offences (b)Against their persons. 1. Homicide 950 646 2. Assault, wounding, ill-treatment and grievous harm 697 4 3. Common assault 703 169 4. Kidnapping 187 143 5. Sexual offences 170 1 6. Other offences 1 1 OFFENCES OF A PUBLIC NATURE. (c)-Against the Crown and Government. 1. Currency offences 144 171 2. Sedition, intimidation and breach of emergency regulations. 74 28 3. Unlawful societies..... 44 2 4. Trespass and damage on Crown Land... 30 14 5. Theft and damage of public stores 14 14 6. Misconduct by Government officers... * 1 7. Opium and Revenue offences 110 140 8. Dangerous drug and goods 1:0 R3 9. Other offences.... 13 4 Carried forward,.. 40 46 28 31 28 631 211 232 236 266 1 ; 22 I! 22 11 23 25 15 16 17 122 127 --- 25 13 17 16 20 14 12 222 296 10 7 10 A 96 13 66 71 4 15 7 16 152 196 14 379 མ སཡ ྂ ྂ ུ་ 19 35 1 67 14 1,008 1,136 1,017 28 24 +4 1 4 42 10 3 18 9 11 4 3 226 102 120 108 127 3 10 10 12 14 7 14 2 17 12 47 69 10 9 842 746 137 171 15 20 85 19 Carried forward,.. 3,116 3,553 3,349 3,753 2,282 2,420 198 :༣་ཆོོ་ཚོ་བ ༠ 14 5 26 94 1 4 917 130 20 B 30 6 264 2,178 2,684 t པར་གྲུས པ འི་ སྤྱི 4 10 71 19 3 690 131 14 ** 16 14 II 15 308 7 5 3 :: R 13 fi 7 5 27 22 144 13 6 702 67 12 727 744 21 36 10 84 ༢༠ང་ ༧༤ ཀ :: : 3 1 ::*;< # 12 101 220 12 25 8 38 3 97 120 29 10 :