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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 29TH FEBRUARY, 1868.

VOL. XIV.

No. 9.

No. 26.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Returns, connected with the business of the Superior and Subordinate Courts of this Colony for the Year 1867, are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th February, 1868.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Coloniai Secretary.

RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES that have been tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG, during the Year 1867.

Number of Cases.

Number of Persons.

CRIME.

Convicted.

Acquitted.

Death.

Death Recorded.

One year. Hard Labor One

Penal Servitude.

Hard Labor over

year and under.

Number

of

Persons.

Number

of

Strokes.

Flogged.

Publicly

Solitary Confine-

ment, Number of

Persons.

Number

REMARKS.

Charges

abandoned.

of

Cases.

Number

of

Persons.

1

1

2

Assault,

2

2

Assault with intent to rob,

1

2

Administering a stupifying drag with intent, &c., and kidnapping,...

Assaulting Police Constable whilst in the execution of his duty,

:

75

1

1

Attempting to commit Burglary,

1

4

Attempting to drown,

2

3

Breaking and entering and Stealing in a Store,

2

2

Burglary and Larceny with Wounding,

4 a...

2

88

I

1

Burglary being armed, and Larceny,

1

1

Cattle Stealing,

9

12

Child Stealing,

3

Conspiracy to accuse of crime,

-:

50

50

1

4

1

1

Cutting and Wounding,

1

Cutting and Wounding a Police Constable with intent to prevent lawful

:

apprehension,

1

1

Cutting and Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm,

1

2

Demanding money with Menaces,

1

1

1

Embezzlement,

1

1

Escape and Larceny with violence,

1

1

Forgery, and uttering a forged note,

2

2 Highway Robbery with violence,

I 1

Indecent Assault,

8

15

Larceny,

1

25

2

2

2

12

3

2

4 4

Larceny by a Servant,

G

8

Larceny in a Dwelling-house,

2

2 Larceny on board Ship in the Harbor,

4

Manslaughter,

1

2

2

Murder,

Misdemeanour under Section 171 of the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1864,

Obtaining Goods by false pretences,

1

Obtaining Goods by means of a forged instrument,

3

3 Perjury,

5

6

Piracy and Murder,

Rape,

1

1

Receiving Stolen Goods,

1

3

Robbery in the Harbor,

6

7

12

Robbery from the Person with Violence,

1

1

Robbery from the Person with Wounding,

11122

11122

Shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm,

1 Stabbing with intent to do grievous bodily harm,

Tendering Counterfeit Coin,

Unlawful Wounding,

1

Uttering Counterfeit Coin,

1

d...

1

82 118

86

27

6

20 42 18 12

615

4 16

24

W. H. ALEXANDER,

Registrar.

a. In this case three witnesses for the prosecution were committed to prison for two months for contempt of Court in giving false evidence. b. In this case a witness for the prosecution was committed to prison for two months for contempt of Court in giving false evidence.

c. A witness for the prosecution in one of these cases was committed to prison for one month for contempt of Court in giving false evidence. d. In one of these cases a witness for the prosecution was committed to prison for six weeks for contempt of Court in giving false evidence.And in the

other case a witness for the defence was committed to prison for six weeks for the same offence.