The Municipal Advocate states in his report that 11,205 cases were prosecuted in the" Shanghai First Special Area District Court and the Kiangsu High Court, Second Branch, during the month of May, as com: pared with 9,800 cases in April. "Out of the total number of cases (12,602, includes private criminal prosections,.etc.) during the month, 11,034 were administrative cases, and 1628 were criminal cases. Seven thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight persons failed to appear in administrative cases and their ball Was confiscated, as compared with 7,063 persons in April. One thousand, eight hundred and eighty-one administrative cases were prosecuted to completion, out of which number 41878 persons' were convicted and three persons were acquitted. Twelve criminal cases were withdrawn and 1445 were prosecuted to completion, out of which number 1,200 were con-viered and 155 were acquitted. The total number of administrative and criminal cases prosecuted to com~ pletion was 3,826, as compared with 2718 cases. "during April, Three thousand, one, hundred and sixty~ eight persons sy convicted and 158 were acquitted, 24 compared with 2,536 persons convicted and 162 fequitted during April, In addition to the above, there were 171 private criminal prosecutions, 527 cases. instituted by the Health and Public Works Departments for violation of Health and Public Works Regulations, and 679 cases instituted the TraMe Department for infringement of Trae Regulations as compared with 94 private criminal Prosecutions, 319 Health and Public Works cases, and 962 trafic cases in Percentage of Convictions. per cent. of the persons charged in administrative cases were convicted and 89.2 per cent, of the persons charged in criminal cases were con-violed, making the total percentage of convictions for the month 94.5 cent.
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