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II-APPREHENSIONS AND SUMMONSES.
TABLE showing the Number of Persons brought before the Magistrates' Courts by Arrest, Warrant, or Summons for Offences, and how their Cases were disposed of in the Magistrates' Courts.
Number Discharged
for want of Prosecution by the Party complaining
or for want of Evidence.
Number of Cases Dismissed on the Merits.
Number of
P'ersons
summarily Convicted.
Number of Persons Committed for Trial in the Superior Courts.
Offences against the person.. Prædial larceny
249 361
472 28
1,658
24
897
5
Offences against property
other than prædial larceny Offences against Master and
149
115
702
12
Servants Acts, including
Acta relating to inden- tured coolies
26
16
Other offences
197
351
349 2,505
82
Total number of persons
summoned or apprehended
982
882
6,113
123
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IV. INDICTMENTS AND INFORMATIONS IN THE SUPERIOR COURts. Including Courts analogous to the Courts of Quarter Sessions in England, i. e., District Courts, &c.
State how the Cases
Tried in the
Superior Courts ended.
Include in the Returns below the Indictments for Attempts
and Conspiracies to commit the several Offences.
Total.
Murder other than Wife and Child Murder.
Manslaughter.
Attempt at Murder.
Murder of Wife, Reputed Wife, or Concubine.
Child Murder.
Concealment of Birth.
NOTE-Purely Civil cases in which Magistrates exercise jurisdiction are not to be included in this or the following Table.
* Include both offences against rights of property and injury to the subjects of property.
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Case fell through for want of Prosecution, inclu- ding cases where a Bill WIS thrown out by Grand Jury..
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Abortion.
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Rape.
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Other Offences against the Person. Malicious Injuries to Property.
Unnatural Crimes.
Robbery with Violence.
::Prædial Larceny.
Other Offences against Property.
Miscellaneous Offences.
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III. SUMMARY CONVICTIONS.
TABLE showing the Number of Summary Convictions for various Classes of Offences, and the kind of Punishment inflicted.
Punishments.
Total Number of
Offences.
Assaults
and other
Malicious Offences Injuries against
to
the
Property.
Person.
Predial Larceny.
Offences against Property
other than Malicious Injuries to Property
or l'rædial Larceny.
Offences against Offences against
Revenue Acts,
Highway Acts, Health Acts, and other Acts relating to the Social Economy of the Colony.
Masters and
Servants' Acta.
including Acts
relating to Indentured Coolies.
Other Offences.
V.-COMPARATIVE TABLE.
COMPARATIVE TABLE showing the Number of Offences, Apprehensions, Convictions, and Acquittals for the last Four Years.
1871.
1872.
1873.
1874.
The number of summary convictions—
or summoned before the Magistrates
The number of offences reported to the police The number of persons apprehended by the police
7,002
5,666
5,190
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7,800
7,963
9,110
8,056
Fine
3.615
1,118
6
336
5
1,215
327
588
2. For prædial larceny
1. For offences against the person
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1,983
1,506
1,817
1,648
Imprisonment, in
lieu of fine or surety
Peremptory im.
prisonment
864
1,042
220
4
165
2
871
16
85
4. For other offences
3. For offences against property other than
prodial Inreeny
856
974
939
897
498
170
313
480
5,904
58
1
376
473
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2. For prædial larceny
1. For offences against the person
The number of convictions in the Superior Courts—
3,250
2,783
3,010
2,879
28
19
36
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Whipping
3. For offences against property other than
15
9
11
Bound over with
prædial larceny
35
4.4
32
or without suretics
Total
384 252
5,904 1,648
28
104
4. For other offences
23
5
897
480
1,674
346
848
1. In the Inferior Courts
The number of persons acquitted—
17
39
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1,313
2. In the Superior Courts
7
2,386 11
2,380 11
1,864
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Note. Where there has been an appeal from the magistrate's decision the case is to be entered as finally
decided, and not necessarily according to the magistrate's original decision.
*Of the number acquitted in the Inferior Courts 982 was the number discharged for want of prosecution by the party complaining, or for want of evidence.
Inclosure 3 in No. 23.
IN reporting upon the Criminal Statistics for 1874, as required by his Excellency the Governor, for the information of the Right Honourable the Secretary for the Colonies, it is satisfactory to me to be able to say that I notice nothing either in the figures or in
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