438

(Y 2)

SUPREME COURT.

1. RETURN OF CRIMINAL CASES tried in the Supreme Court of Hong Kong during the year 1930.

3

19 19 1 - 30 19 1 - 20 ** 14 20 1

2

2

Number of Cases.

Number of Persons.

CRIME.

3

1

7 Conspiracy

1

Criminal Intimidation

i

11

1

Accessory after the fact

Assault by two or more with intent to rob...

Attempting to commit arson

Burglary and larceny

.

Larceny in a dwelling house

Making a false statement without path.

Murder...

Offering bribe to a public servant.

Publishing fraudulent statements

2 Receiving stolen goods

Returning to the Colony during deportation

period....

2 Robbery

AIKI AND H

2

1

Robbery and wounding.

10

Robbery by two or more

3 Setting fire to goods in a building

2 Simple larceny

2 Cttering forged document

Wounding

Wounding persons on board a ship with

intent to commit piracy.

Wounding with inteni

5

1

Obtaining goods by false pretences

Obtaining money on a forged intrument

53

78

Sentence.

Convicted.

Acquitted.

Death.

Death recorded.

Imprisonment over one year.

Imprisonment one year or under.

Fined.

4 13

2

+

3

3

35

32

* 10 - 19 10 -

3

to

2

6

-

Cases

abandoned.

Privately flogged.

No. of Cases

?

++

No. of Persons.

Found insane.

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25

6

9

10

11

R

2. Indictments and Informations in the Supreme Court, including Courts analogous to the Courts of Quarter Sessious in England, ie., District Courts, &c. (Year 1930.)

Including Attempts and Conspiracies to commit the several offences.

Showing how the cases tried in

the Superior Courts euded.

Judgment for the Crown,.... Judgment for the prisoner,

Cases which fell through for want of prosecution or absence of accused, andi cases thrown out by the Grand Jury (Attorney General),..

Totul.

35

32

Murder.

78

11

j

A

LA

2

co i

3

Conspiracy.

Wounding.

Uttering forged

document.

Arson.

1 -

N

21

:

Criminal intimidation.

Robbery by two or

more.

Other Offences against the Person,

Miscellaneous Offences.

1

++

M

13

2

3

1

10

7

*

24

+++

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