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SUPREME COURT.
1.—Return of CRIMINAL CASES tried in the Supreme Court of Hongkong during the year 1920.
Sentence.
Charges
C'ased
a bandonest.
postponed.
Number of Cases,
Number of Persons.
3
11
1
Arson
Assault
CRIME.
Assault with intent to rob
Attempting to shoot with intent
Attempting to administer poison with intent to
injure
Attempt to rob
Breaking into dwelling honse with intent
Convicted
Acquitted.
Death.
Denth recordled.
Hard Labour over
one year.
Hard Labour, one
year and under.
Privately flogged.
No, of Cases,
No. of Persons.
· No of VaseS,
Bribery
6
Child stealing
10
Disobedience of Order of Banishment
Embezzlement
Forgery
1
2
Importing counterfeit coins
7
Manslaughter...
11
Murler
1 1
Perjury
2
Receiving stolen goods......
I
2
Resisting arrest on search for arms
14
27
Robbery by two or more ......................
1
1
Sending letter demanding money with mac,
1
I
Throwing corrosive fluid with intent
1
2
Unlawful possession of arms
I
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Ettering forged documents.........................
Uttering forged or altere.t bink-note
1
1
Wounding with intent
69 100
Note.-Indicted
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21
24
23
81
19
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63 10
27
2
100
Either not indicted or Nelle prosequi entered (included under
the heading of "Charges abandoned ")
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21
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No. of Persons.
2.
Indictments and Informations in the Supreme Court,
including Courts analogous to the Courts of Quarter Sessions in England, ie., District Courts, &c. (Year 1920.)
Including Attempts and Conspiracies to commit the several offences.
Showing how the cases
tried in the Superior Courts ended.
(Each prisoner tried counts as a separate case; where a lurge number of prison- ! ers have been convicted together, the fact is men- tioned in a note.)
Judgment for the Crown,... Judgment for the prisoner, Prisoner found insane, Cases which fell through for want of prosecution or absence of accused, and cases thrown out by the Grand Jury (Attorney General),... Cases postponeıl,
Total,
81
19
19
102
Murder.
Manslaughter.
Attempt at Murder.
Concealment of Birth.
00 20
8
3
3
4
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8
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Abortion.
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21
33
16
3
4
5
Rape.
Unnatural Crimes.
Robbery with Violence.
Other Offences against the Person.
Offences against Property,
Miscellaneous Offences.
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24
39
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