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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
Persons
Summarily
Convicted.
155
IV. INDICTMENTS AND INFORMATIONS IN THE SUPERIOR COURTS. INCLUDING Courts analogous to the Courts of Quarter Sessions in England,- i.e., District Courts, &c.
Number of Persons Committed for Trial in the Superior Courts.
State how the Cases
tried in the
Superior Courts
unded.
Offences against the person. Prodial larceny
92
136
272
13
3
20
87
Offences against property
other than prædial farceny Offences against Master and
17
26
116
11
Servants Acts, including
Acts relating to inden
tured coolies
1
3
9
Other offences
147
461
777
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Total number of persons
summoned or appre- bended
260
650
1,252
26
NOTE-Purely civil cases in which Magistrates exercise juristiction are not to be included in this or the following table.
* See foot note (†) above.
Judgment for the Crown Judgment for the Pri-
soner
Prisoner found insane Case fell through for want
of prosecution (includ ing cases where a bill was thrown out by Grand Jury
Total
Include in the Returns below the Indictments for Attempts
and Conspiracies to commit the several Offences.
19
11
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Total.
: | Murder, other than Wife and Child Murder.
1
Manslaughter
Attempt at Murder.
Murder of Wife, Reputed Wife, or
Child Murder.
Concubine.
Concealment of Birth.
Abortion.
Kape.
Urnatural Crimes.
Other Offences against the Person.
Malicious Injuries to Property.
Robbery with Violence.
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Pradial Larceny.
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34
1
1
1
Other Offences against Property.
Miscellaneous Offences.
1
12 3
13
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Reference
C.O.
2.885
3 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
III. SUMMARY CONVICTIONS.
TABLE showing the Number of Summary Convictions for various classes of Offences, and the kind of Punishments inflicted.
Punishments.
Total Number of
Offences.
Assaults
and other
Malicicus
Offences
Injuries
against to
the Property.
Person.
Prædial Larceny.
Offences against Pro- perty other than Malicious Injurica
to Property or Predial
Larceny.
Offences against Revenue Acts, Highway Acts. Health Acts, and other Acts relating to the Social Economy of the Colony.
Offences against Masters and Servants' Acts,
including Acts relating
to Indentured Coolies.
Other Offences.
• Grand Juries abolished.
V. COMPARATIVE TABLE.
COMPARATIVE Table showing the Number of Offences, Apprehensions, Convictions, and Acquittals for the last Four Years.
2
Fine..
891
220
4
32
15
Imprisonment -in
lieu of fine or
surety
95
18
10
]
Peremptory im-
prisonment
243
32
39
98
Whipping
13
4
2
:
Bound over with
or without
suretics
10
2
2
Total
1,252
272
5
87
116
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1871.
1872.
1873.
1874.
·
The number of offences reported to the police and to the
Magistrates The number of persons apprehended by the police or sum-
1,436
2,320
2,113
2,162
5
613
moned before the Magistrates
1,16-1
2,416
2,126
2,188
The number of summary convictions-
1. For offences against the person
158
307
268
272
66
2. For prædial larceny
28
77
49
87
3. For offences against property other than prædial larceny
114
94
119
116
4. For other offences
73
533
984
799
777
7
The number of convictions in the Superior Courts—-
1. For offences against the person
32
8
14
8
2. For pradial larceny
3. For offences against property other than præedial larceny
2
18
17
11
4. For other offences
14
1
5
765
The number of persons acquitted--
1. In the Inferior Courts
955
86-1
824
2. In the Superior Courts
10
G
9
11
Information not received from out-islands.
Colonial Secretary's Office, June 20, 1875.
(Signed) E. B. A. TAYLOR, Colonial Secretary.
NOTE. Where there has been an Appeal from the Magistrates' decision the case is to be entered as finally decided, and not necessarily according to the Magistrates" original decision.
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