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Number of Cases tried.

Number of Persons tried.

CHARGES ABAN-

CASES

POFT-

DONED.

POKED.

RETURN of CRIMINAL Cases tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG during the Year 1895.

SENTENCE.

CRIMES.

Convicted.

Acquitted.

Death.

Death Recorded.

Hard Labour

over one Year.

Hard Labour one

Year and under.

Solitary Confinement- Number of l'ersons.

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3

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Bribery,

Bringing a woman into the Colony for the purpose

of prostitution,

Burglary,

:

2

1

1

1

1

Forgery and Uttering forged Bill of Exchange,

1

I

Larceny,

Larceny in a dwelling house,

Larceny and Wounding,

2

Manslaughter,

Murder,

1

Robbery,

1

2

Setting fire to a dwelling house,

3

Stealing in a dwelling house with menaces,.

1

Uttering a forged Bank Note,

;am

Uttering counterfeit coin,

2

5

Wounding with intent to murder,

3

3

Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm,...

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32

23

9

3

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2

2

15

6

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Privately Flogged— Number of Persons.

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No. of Cases.

No. of Persons.

No. of Cases.

No. of Persons.

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Of 39 Persons only

32 were tried.

7 were not indicted which are included under the heading of "Charges Abandoned,”

7

39 Persone.

10

5

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:

J. W. NORTON KYSHE, Registrar.

Registry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 3rd March, 1896.

INDICTMENTS and INFORMATION in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG for the Year 1895.

Including Attempts aud Conspiracies to commit the several offences.

Showing how the cases tried

in the Superior Courts ended.

(Each Prisoner tried counts 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,

Judgment for the Prisoner,

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,

Total.

Murder.

Manslaughter.

Attempt at Murder.

Concealment of Birth.

17

1

2

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4

10

:

26

:

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3

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4.

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Abortion.

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* 7 Persons in all.

Registry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 3rd March, 1896,

Rape.

Unnatural Crimes.

Robbery with violence.

Other offences against the Person.

Offences against Property.

Miscellaneous Offences.

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1

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1

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5

1

1

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10

5

10

J. W. NORTON KYSHE,

Registrar.