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Number of Cases tried.

Number of Persons tried.

RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG during the Year 1889.

SENTENCE.

209.

CHARGE'S ABAN-

CASES POST-

DONED.

PONED.

CRIMES.

Convicted.

Acquitted.

Death.

Death Recorded.

over one Year.

Hard Labour

Hard Labour one

Year and under.

Number of Persons. Solitary Confinement,

Number of Persons. Privately Flogged,

No. of Cases.

No. of Persons,

No. of Cases,

No. of Persons.

2

2

1 1 0 - 1 1ii

Embezzlement,

5

Escape,

Arson,

Assaulting,

Attempting to procure a woman to have illicit carnal

connection,

Being a member of the Triad Society,

Buggery,..

9

Burglary,

Demanding money by means of a forged instrument.... Demanding money with menaçes..

Feloniously assaulting with intent to rob,

3

1211

1

1

2

2

1

1

5

2

2

Feloniously wounding with intent to do grievous bo-

dily harm...

2

N

1

2

22

2

Feloniously administering a certain stupefying drug.... Feloniously forging a certain cheque with intent to

defraud,

2

::

2

:

N

1

1

Feloniously obtaining goods by virtue of a certain

forged intrument,

1 2

ON M

2

2

Feloniously shooting with intent to murder,

1

1

1

Feloniously and by force taking away a child under

the age of 14 years,

1

:

1

1

2

4

Feloniously breaking and entering a dwelling house

and committing a felony therein,

2

2

2

Found equipped for the purpose of piracy and carry-

ing arms without a licence,

1

House breaking and Larceny,

1

Kidnapping,

3

Larceny,

1

4

4

Larceny and previous conviction,

3

4

Larceny by a servant,

3

Larceny from the person,

4

Larceny from a godown,.

4

3

6

Larceny in a dwelling house with menaces,

1

2

Larceny from a ship,

2

2

Libel,

a3

G

Murder.

1

1

Obtaining money under false pretences,

2

3

Piracy,

1

1

Rape,

bl

1

Receiving stolen goods,

1

1

1

1

12

19

1

1

Returning from deportation,

Robbery from the person,

Robbery from the person with violence,

Robbery from the person and feloniously wounding,

I

I

Robbery from the person on board a British ship,

- B - HU AN --~⠀⠀⠀

1

3

2

1

3

3

2

3 c3 4

1

1

2

Stealing in a dwelling house with meuaces,

:

...

Taking away from the Colony for the purpose of

prostitution,

1

4

Unlawfully being in possession of counterfeit coin

with intent to utter same,

3

1

1

Ι

Unlawfully causing to be forged a certain trade mark

with intent to defraud,

1

I

Unlawfully purchasing a certain woman for the pur.

pose of prostitution,

1

1

1

Unlawfully attempting to bribe a Police Constable, Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm,

J

68

106

64

41

Of 106 Persons only

1 Recognizance estreated,

:

:.

3

:

115

55

9

.105 were tried.

1

Defendant's Recognizance estreated... Convicted, Acquitted,

106 Persons.

Charges abandoned,

Total............

:

13

13

1

མ

21

:

37

1 Person.

.64

.41

105 Persons.

37 *;

143 Persons.

a. In two cases 2 men were convicted for mauslaughter.

b. The prisoner being called on his Recognizance and not answering, his Recognizance ordered to be estreated ($800 paid into Court). e. In one case the Prosecutor not appearing the Court ordered that his Recognizance be estreated (The Prosecutor not to be found).

EDW. J. ACKROYD, Registrar.

Registry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 7th January, 1890.

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