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Number of Cases.

Number of Persons.

- 123

Table III.

Return of CRIMINAL CASES tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG during the year 1907.

Sentence.

Charges

abandoned.

Cases postponed.

CRIME.

2 Aiding and abetting to commit murder,

2 Assault occasioning actual bodily harm,...

Attempted buggery,

Conspiracy.

1

2

1

2

1 1

4

6 Forgery..

1

I

Disobedience of Order of Banishment,.

Falsification of Trade Mark,

1 Highway robbery,

1 Larceny by servant,

Larceny in a dwelling house with menaces

1

6

16

Manslaughter,

4

7

Murder,

4

15

Robbery,

}

1 Uttering a forged document,

1

1

Uttering forged notes,

28

56

Convicted.

22N

Acquitted.

Death.

Death recorded.

Hard Labour over

one year.

Hurd Labour one

year and under.

Solitary Confinement.

Privately flogged.

No. of Cases.

No. of Persons.

No. of Cases,

No. of Persons.

2

2

13

3

7

13

13

1

1

1

48

8 9

28

Note.-Indicted

56

Either not indicted or Nolle prosequi entered (included under the heading of

"Charges abandoned ".)

B

Postponed

1

70

(a) Bail estreated.

(b) Nolle prosequi entered.

APPEALS

COMMENCED.

Table IV.

APPELLATE JURISDICTION.

APPEALS TRIED.

Number of Cases.

No. of Cases.

JUDGMENT.

:

3

5

13

1

1

Appellant. Respondent. Pending. Withdrawn.

13

9

3

6

4

Table V.

ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION.

Actions instituted.

Number heard.

Settled or withdrawn.

Pending.

1

I

In 1 action the ship was arrested.

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Table VI.

BANKRUPTCY JURISDICTION.

RETURN of BANKRUPTCIES during the year 1907.