Table IX.
4.- ABSTRACT of CASES brought under COGNIZANCE of the POLICE MAGISTRATES' Courts during a period of ten years 1923-1932.
Cases, how disposed of, and the Number of Male and Female Defendants under each head,
Year. Total number of cases. Total number of defendants. Committed for trial at Supreme Court. Convicted and sentenced. Discharged. Ordered to find security. To keep the peace, to be of good behaviour, and to answer. Escaped before being brought to trial. Punished for making false charge or giving false evidence. Did not appear and absconded. Undecided. Committed to prison or detained pending order of His Excellency the Governor. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 1923. 21,720 26,773 450 22,975 350 3,150 171 376 28 1924. 27,724 34,585 1,090 28,708 859 5,154 172 22 72 246 24 264 17 171 6 376 28 1925. 25,790 30,696 1,864 25,896 1,595 4,099 242 178 2 328 23 1926..... 1927.......... Total 137,872 164,803 Average per Year 27,574.4 32,978.6 1,516 1928... 28,468 1929. 31,558 32,882 1,580 27,308 1,323 4,872 203 135 6 461 6 1930. 38,646 39,878 2,542 33,387 2,024 5,931 464 48 2 410 52 2 1931. 38,578 40,337 2,199 35,296 1,802 4,233 246 1 1 670 60 1932. Total Average per Year 35,145.2 2,081.2 Grand Total for the ten Years .. Average per Year 30,869 34,061.0 1,691.8 29,096.1 1,583.6 4,254.5 252.3 119.8 1.5* Prior to 1932 Juveniles were included in Column M, or F.