1915 — Page 539

Number of Cases.

Number of Persons.

(Y3)

SUPREME COURT.

1.-RETURN OF Criminal Cases tried in the Supreme Court of Hongkong during the year 1915.

CRIME.

Convicted.

Acquitted.

*14846/

Sentence.

Charges

Cases

abandoned.

postponed.

માપન

ជា:

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Deuth recorded,

Hard Labour over

one year.

Hard Labour, one

year and under.

Solitary Confinement.

Privately flogged.

No. of Cases.

No. of PersoUB.

No. of Cases.

No, of Persons.

1

1

Assault

1

3

Assault and wounding

2

1

3 Arson -----

6 | Assault with intent to rob

Attempt to break and enter dwelling house

with intent to commit felony

1

6

...

1

1

Attempt to incite to commit an offence

8

8 Disobedience of order of deportation

9

7

***

3

Forgery

3

3

1

Fraudulent misappropriation of property...

1

Having explosive under suspicious circum-

stances

1

Indecent assault

1

fi Larceny.

4

to: i

:::

I

:::

1

Larceny by person in public service or

in police force........

2

med

Larceny from a lighter

3

3

1

Larceny in a dwelling house

I

2

Making counterfeit coins

2

#

9

Manslaughter

*

5

Murder

2

3

2

1 I

Perjory

3

3

Receiving stulen goods

2

13

26

Robbery by two or more persons

20

2

H

2

20

16

1

1

Sending letter demanding money with

menaces

1

I

1

Throwing corrosive fluid

1

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**

I

2

Unlawful possession of property stolen out-

side the Colony

1

1

1 1 Wounding

:m

-

55 100

70 30

2

59

+

2+

3

3

I

Note.—Indicted

100

Either not indicted or Nolle proerqui entered (included under

the bearing of -- Charges abandoned") Cases postponed

3

104

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