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Number of Cases.

Number of Persons.

1

2

1

165

Table III.

RETURN OF CRIMINAL CASES tried in the SUPREME COURT of HongKong during the year 1907.

Sentence.

Charges

abandoned.

Cases postponed.

CRIME.

Aiding and abetting to commit murder, Assault occasioning actual bodily harm,

2 Attempted buggery,

mai -i ~~N

Conspiracy.

Disobedience of Order of Banishment,.

Falsification of Trade Mark,

4

6 Forgery.

1

1 Highway robbery,

1

1 Larceny by servant.

1

1

Larceny in a dwelling house with menaces

6

16 Manslaughter,

4 7 Murder,

4

15 | Robbery,

1 1 Uttering a forged document,

I

1

Uttering forged notes,

28

56

Convicted.

Acquitted.

Death.

Death record d.

Hard Labour over ·

one year.

Hard Labour one

year and under.

Solitary Confinement.

Privately floggert,

No. of Cases.

No. of Persons.

No. of Cases,

2

2

2

13

7

13

2

1

48

$

9

28

Note. — Indicted

56

Either not indicted or Nulle prosequi' entered (included under the heading of

Charges abandoned ".)

13

Postponed

1

70

(4) Bail estreated.

(b) Nelle prosequi entered.

Table IV.

APPELLATE JURISDICTION.

5

13

1

1

APPEALS

COMMENCED.

APPEALS TRIED.

JUDGMENT.

Number of Cases.

No. of Cases.

Appellant.

Respondent. Pending.

Withdrawn.

13

9

3

6

4

Table V.

ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION.

Actions instituted.

Number heard.

Settled or withdrawn.

Pending.

5

1

1

In 1 action the ship was arrested.

No. of Person119.