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Number of Cases tried.

Number of Persons tried.

CHARGES ABAN-

CASES

POST-

DONED.

PONED.

RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG during the Year 1890.

CRIMES.

Convicted.

Acquitted.

Death.

SENTENCE.

2

HHAHHA INIING

1

2

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Arson,

Assault,

Assault with intent to rob,

Assault occasioning actual bodily harm,.

Bribery,

Conspiracy,

Embezzlement,

Escape,

2

Embezzlement by a servant,.

Feloniously assaulting,

Feloniously breaking and entering a dwelling house

and committing a felony therein,

2

1

1

1

1

1

Feloniously forging a certain order for the payment

of money with intent to defraud,

1

2

2

Feloniously obtaining goods by virtue of a forged

order......

2

Feloniously setting fire to a dwelling house,

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Feloniously shooting with intent to do grievous bodily

harm,

1

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Feloniously and unlawfully taking away a child under

the age of 14 years,

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3

3

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1

8

3

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Feloniously wounding with intent to do grievous bo-

dily harm,

Kidnapping,

Larceny,

Larceny and previous conviction,

Larceny and Receiving,

Larceny as a Public servant,

Larceny by a clerk,

Larceny by a servant,

Larceny in a dwelling house.........................................................................................................

Manslaughter,

Murder,

Obtaining money under false pretences,

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Stealing in a dwelling house with menaces,

1

Piracy,.

Robbery, ...........................................................

Robbery from the person with violence,

Unlawfully being in possession of counterfeit coin, Unlawfully and maliciously inflicting grievous bo-

dily harm,

Unlawfully wounding,

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20

25

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Of 80 Persons only

63 were tried.

17 were not indicted which are included under the heading of charges abandoned,..............17

80 Persons.

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a. In this case the prisoner was convicted and sentenced to death, the sentence was commuted to imprisonment with hard labour for 20

Registry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 10th February, 1891.

EDW. J. ACKROYD, Registrar.