Municipal Advocate Reports on Prosceution 'The Municipal Advocate states in tne report. for February that 6880 gases were prosecuted in the Shanghai First Special Area District Court and the Kinngsu High Court Second Branch, during February, compared with' 0,802 in January, Out of the total number of cases prosecuted 5237 were administrative fant 1,043 eriminat eases. Out of the total number of administrative cases brought to trial, 3,158 persons failed to appear and their ball was confiecated, while 62 cases were withdrawn, og compared with 5,704 eases, which bail was confiscated and 24 withdrawn in January. "Two thou-send and seventeen administrative eases were prosecuted to completion, out of which number 2012 persons were convieled and five acquitted. Twenty-six criminal eases were withdrawn and 1,617 prosecuted to comppietion, out of which number 1,490 poisons were convicted and 127 acquitted.
The total number of administrative and criminal eases prosecuted to com~ pletion was 3,034, as compared with 4149 In January Three thousand, five hundred and two per~ sons were convicted and 132 acquitted, as compared with 4,040 convicted and 109 acquitted in January.
In addition (o the above, there were 94 private criminal. prosecutions, as compared with 79 in January, Percentage of Convictions 92.2 per cent. of the persons charged in criminal cases, and 90.7 per cent. of thave charged in administrative cases were convicted, making a total percentage of convictions for the month 05.9 per cent. as compared with 90.5 per cent. for the month of January.
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