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INDICTMENTS and InformatioNS in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG, for the Year 1891.
Including Attempts and Conspiracies to commit the several offences.
Total.
Murder.
Manslaughter.
Attempt at murder.
Concealment of Birth.
Abortion,
Rape.
Unnatural Crimes.
Robbery with violence.
Other offences against the Person.
Offences against Property.
Miscellaneous offences.
Showing how the cases tried in the
Superior Courts ended.
(Each prisoner tried, counted as a separate case; where a large number of Prisoners have been convicted together, the fact is mentioned in a note.)
Judgment for the Crown,
26
26
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Judgment for the Prisoner,
9
2
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Prisoner found Insane,.
Cases which fell through for want of prosecution or absence of accused, and cases thrown out by the Grand Jury. (Attorney General),
Cases postponed,.
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EDW. J. ACKROYD, Registrar.
Registry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 31st December, 1891.
RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES that have been brought under the COGNIZANCE of the SUPREME Court, during the last Ten Years.
Charges Abandoned.
Postponed.
YEAR.
Number Number
of
of Cases. Persons.
Convicted. Acquitted.
No. of Cases.
No. of Persons.
No. of Cases.
No. of Persons.
1882, (c.) 1883, (d.) 1884,
124
187
124
38
91
126
70
68
101
65
1885,
91
147
103
(e.) 1886,
75
107
59
Total,.
449
668
421
126
(f.) 1887,
94
155
82
36
1888,
(g.) 1889,
1890,
101
186
99
47
92
143
64
41
59
80
43
20
**FR
15
21
1
26
14
28d
2
20
8
16
22
16
22
20
16
27e
1
69
114
4
6
17
26
28
40
24
37
7
17
1891,
32
37
26
2
6969
8
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+
Total,
378
601
314
153
78
122
1
8
Average of 1st Period,
894
1333
841
25층
134
224
$
1층
Average of 2nd
Period,
75%
1201
62$
30%
153
243
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c. In one case the recognizance estreated, this case is included in the total, but not in any other of the above headings. d. In one case the recognizance estreated, and one prisoner committed suicide in the Gaol.
e. In one case the recognizance estreated.
f. In three cases the recognizances were estreated.
9. In one case the recognizance estreated, this case is included in the total, but not in any other of the above headings.
Registry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 31st December, 1891.
EDW. J. ACKROYD,
Registrar.
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