# H 16
## Table 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. Committed for trial at Supreme Court. Cases, how disposed of, and the Number of Male, Female and juvenile Defendants under each head. Convicted and sentenced Discharged or Order made. Committed to prison or detained pending order of His Excellency the Governor M. F. J. M. F. J. M. F. J. 1920 31,558 32,882 1,580 27,308 1,329 4,872 203 135 401 54 6 1931 38,573 40,937 2,199 1932 39,573 32,531 26,726 1,807 5,034 95 1933 46,087 41,750 2,822 35,296 1,892 3,423 616 549 4,808 1934 4,233 246 GG 1 G70 14 1935 53,817 50,727 6,625 41,854 3,752 30,483 4,644 1,361 7,612 1,210 1936 47,293 3,900 1937 46,047 9,400 3,051 50,498 9,918 2,307 8,197 1938 68,311 56,954 10,713 50,185 14,183 72,793 50,185 14,183 Total 188,437 187,828 14,230 157,751 10,759 25,728 3,024 1,137 400 7 Average per Year 37,687.4 37,465.6 2,846 31,550.2 2,151.8 5,145.6 604.8 227.4 80.0 1.4 Year To keep the peace, and to be of good behaviour, and to answer any charge. Punished for making false charge or giving false evidence. Did not appear and absconded. [Enforcement of bonds] Undecided M. F. J. M. F. J. M. F. J. 1920 1030 39 646 1931 410 5'2 2 1932 1933 503 271 94 2 2 776 130 221 2 1934 1935 1,518 806 57 2 1936 E 808 144 125 20 1937 1938 Total 3,124 440 346 10 Average per Year 624.4 88.2 69.2 2 Year Total number of cases. Total number of defendants. Committed for trial at Supreme Court. Cases, how disposed of, and the Number of Male, Female and juvenile Defendants under each head. 1934 47,055 47,055 2,147 30,414 2,889 7,482 1,852 644 79 1935 1936 62,203 50,498 9,918 5,549 1,475 1,151 6,234 1,312 835 1937 6,638 982 428 6,572 1938 607 129 142 Total 313,941 260,839 50,848 218,013 42,316 9,686 32,469 6,953 3,566 Average per Year: 62,788.2 52,167.8 10,169.6 43,602.6 8,463.2 1,937.2 Year To keep the peace, and to be of good behaviour, and to answer any charge. Punished for making false charge or giving false evidence. Did not appear and absconded. [Enforcement of bonds] Undecided M. F. J. M. F. J. M. F. J. 1934 1,300 312 695 $45 31 1935 § 24 1936 2,211 344 610 3 2 1937 $183 11 § 68 189 10 1 1938 2,427 825 530 $647 $ 28 $ 28 1,332 508 230 11 2 Total 1,964 978 313 $254 14 $ 16 $ Average per Year 1,184.4 296.4 106 143 4.8 5.6 Grand Total for the ten Years... 502,378 447,667 65,078 375,764 58,075 58,197 9,977 Average per Year 50,237.8 44,766.7 6,507.8 37,576.4 5,807.5 5,819.7 997.7* Prior to 1932 Juveniles were included in Columns M. or F.
† Figures not available.
§ Not included in total.