# IX. Abstract of Cases brought under COGNIZANCE of the POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURTS during a period of ten years.
Year
Total number of cases.
Total number of defendants.
Convicted and sentenced.
Cases, how disposed of, and the Number of Male, Female and juvenile Defendants under each head.
Discharged.
Committed to prison to keep the peace, or detained pending to be of good behaviour, and to answer any charge.
Did not appear and absconded.
Enforcement of bonds
Committed for trial at Supreme Court.
order of His Excellency the Governor.
Punished for making false charge or giving false evidence.
Undecided.
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 M. F. J. M. F. J. M. F. J. M. F. J. M. F. J. M. F. J. M. F. J. M. F. J. 1928 28,468 30,148 1,263 26,191 1,005 3,157 222 84 1 6 575 35 135 1929 32,832 31,558 1,580 27,308 1,323 4,872 203 135 461 54 6 44 1930 2,542 464 48 2 5 410 52 2 95 1931 2,199 1932 Total 39,646 39,878 2,542 38,573 40,387 2,199 33,573 32,531 2,822 170,818 175,726 10,406 1933 33,387 2,024 5,931 1934 35,296 1,041 26,726 1935 1936 1937 Total Average per Year 34,163.6 85,145.2 2,081.2 Grand Total for the ten Years.. 458,053 418,630 52,158 Average per Year 45,805.3 41,863 5,215.8* Prior to 1932 Juveniles were included in Columns M. or F.
Figures not available.
§ Not included in total.