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SUPREME COURT.

1.—Returs of CRIMINAL CASES tried in the Supreme Court of Hongkong during the year 1924.

Sentence.

Charges

Cases

abandonel,

postponed.

Number of Cases,

Number of Persons.

CRIME,

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Convicted.

Acquitted.

Death.

Death recorded.

Hard Labour over

one year

Hard Labour, one year and under.

Privately flogged.

No, of Cases,

No. of PersoUN.

No. of Cases,

No, of PersoNS.

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Acceptance of a bribe by a publice servant. Assault by two or more with intent to rob

I Attempted murder

Being accessory before the fact to a robbery Breach of Onder for deportation

Bribery of a Public Servant

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Chill stealing

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5 Conspiracy to commit an offence:

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Demanding with mennees

Larceny

2 Larceny from the person

+ Malicious woumling..

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Manslaughter'....................................

Munder .............................. Piracy

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Possession of property stolen ontside the Colony

Receiving stolen goods...

Robbery by two or more

1 Uttering a forged banknote

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Unlawful possession of arms and ammunition...

75

Ettering forged documents

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Wooding with intent.

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137

Nite.—Indicted

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Either not indicted or Nalle prosegui entered (included under

the heading of "t'harges abandoned "') Cases postponed...........

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2.—Indictments and Informations in the Supreme Court,

including Courts analogous to the Courts of Quarter Sessions in Eugland, ¿e., District Courts, &c. (Year 1924.)

Ineluding Attempts and Conspiracies to commit the several offences.

Showing how the eases

tried in the Superion Courts ended.

(Each prisoner tried counts msi separate ease; where a længe mumber of prison- ers have been convicted together, the fart is men- tioned in a jote.)

Total.

Judgment for the C'rown.......... 137

Judgment for the prisoner,

Prisoner found insane, ..........

Crowes which full through Jor】 woat of properation or absence of negusel, aud enwgs thrown out by the-

Grand Jury (Mlorney tieneruts..

Caser postponel,

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Murder.

Manslaughter.

Attempt at Murder.

Concealment of Birth.

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Abortion.

Rape.

Unnatural Crimes.

Robbery with Violence,,

Other Offences against the Person.

Offences against Property,

Miscellaneous Offences.

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