# Table VII.
ABSTRACT OF CASES BROUGHT UNDER COGNIZANCE OF THE POLICE MAGISTRATE'S Court during A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS.
Cases, how disposed of, and the Number of Male and Female Prisoners under each Head.
Years. Total No. of Cases. Committed for trial at Supreme Court. Convicted and Punished. Discharged. Committed to Prison or detained pending Order of His Excellency the Governor. Order to find Security. To keep the peace, to be of good behaviour and to answer any Charge. Escaped before being brought for trial at the Magistracy. Did not appear and absconded. Punished for preferring false charge or giving false testimony. Escaped. Undecided. Total No. of Defendants. 1 2 6 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 1934 521 535 10 10 3 81 2 M. F. J. 1935 ... 402 367 29 49 1936 374 371 26 6 44 10 1937 508 397 56 1 36 1938 667 403 37 138 10 Total 2,472 2,073 158 10 348 20 20 1 1 16 223 75 3 52 Į 20 3 88 1 1 9 32 15 ότι 94 13 15 108 38 CO 189 1 10 31 Aver-age per year. 494.4 414.6 31.6 2 69.6 4 1 6.2 I 198 59 CO 6 498 15 1 39.6 11.8 1.2 99.6 CO 3 .2 1 — J (1) 10 - 710 12 3 494 33 523 35 568 91 1 853 81 9 3,148 252 a། 22 629.6 50.4 4.4