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COMPARATIVE TABLE showing the NUMBER of OFFENCES, APPREHENSIONS, CONVICTIONS and ACQUITTALS

for the last Four Years.

The Number of Convictions in the Superior Courts—

1. For Offences against the Person,

2. For Offences against Property,

3. For other Offences,.....

The Number of Persons Acquitted—

2. In the Superior Courts,

1889.

1890.

1891.

1892.

18

13

13

6

40

22

9

8

8

4

4

Registry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 23rd day of March, 1893.

Number of Cases tried,

Number of Persons tried.

41

20

9

17

BRUCE SHEPHERD,

Acting Registrar.

RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG during the Year 1892,

CRIMES.

Convicted.

Acquitted,

Death.

Death Recorded.

over one Year.

Hard Labour

Hard Labour one

Year and under.

SENTENCE.

Solitary Confinement- Number of Persons.

Privately Flogged—

Number of Persons.

No. of Cases.

No. of Persons.

No. of Cases.

No. of Persons.

CHARGES

CASES

ABAN-

POST-

DONED.

PONED.

Assault,

a

Assault and false imprisonment,.

1

Bribery,

1

3

Burglary,

Burglary and receiving stolen goods,

1

*

2

Conspiracy,

1

Escape,

Mi

N

Feloniously assaulting with intent to rob and being

armed with an offensive weapon,

1

2

Feloniously having in possession forged Bank notes,

Feloniously and maliciously throwing corrosive fluid

with intent to do grievous bodily harm,

1

2

2

Feloniously and maliciously wounding with intent

to do grievous bodily harm,

1

2

2

Larceny,

2

Larceny and receiving stolen goods,

1

Larceny by a servant,

1

5

Larceny from a boat in Victoria harbour,..

1

Larceny in a dwelling house,

1

1

Larceny of a valuable security,.

1

2

3

Making a false statement to the Registrar of deaths, Manslaughter,

1

Murder,

Robbery with violence,

1

Unlawfully and fraudulently obtaining from the

Post Office certain letters the property of the Postmaster General,.....

1

1

1

26

35

Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm,..

18

17

:

3

3

1

:

-

8

1

:

:

1

1

2

::

Of 44 Persons only

.....35 were tried.

9 were not indicted which are included under the heading of "Charges Abandoned,"... 9

44 Persons.

a In this case the prisoner was fined $250.

Registry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 23rd day of March, 1893.

1

4

9

-

:

BRUCE SHEPHERD, Acting Registrar.