The Municipal Advocate in his port for April states that 13,854 cases tore prosecuted in the Shanghai First Special Area District Court and the Kiangsu High Court, Second Branch, during the month as com= pared with 10.261 in March, 10,501 persons failed to appear in petty bye-Taw cases and their bail, was confiscated, as compared with 7,886 in March. Fifty-six cases were with-Grawn on the ground that there insufficient evidence to convict, as compared with 64 in March, 'The fold number of major and' minor criminal eases prosecuted to completion was 3297, as compared with 2,611 in March; 3,099 persons were convict fed and 198 acquitted, as compared with 2870 convicted and 241 acquit ted in March, In addition to the above, there were 228 private eriminfal prosections, 510 cases instituted by the Health and Public Works Departments for violation of Health and Public Works regulations, and 643 by the TramMe Department for infringement of frame regulations, as compared with 201 private criminal prose-. ations, 542 Health and Public Works cases, and 565 trafic cases in Percentage of Convictions.—94 per cent. of the persons charged were con~ Vieted, as compared with 94.9 per feet. in January, 923 per cent. in February, and 90.8 per cent. in March, The percentage of convictions for the first four months of this year 1s 93, fas compared with 98.4 per cent. for {the first four months of last year.
Appeals—(a) By the Council: [Seven appeals to the High Court and three to the District Court of Appeals were filed by the Council during April. Appeals by the Council pending on April 30 were as follows: in the Supreme Court, 3; in the High Court, 6; in the District Court of Appeals, 2.
"b) By the Defendants: Thirty seven appeals were perfected during the month, five to the Supreme Court fand s2 to the High Court. Fitty-[seven appeals, by defendants were concluded and dealt with as follows Accused found not guilty Appeals dismissed...
Appeals withdrawn "1, Sentences reduced for Feirlal 2 There were 77 appeals filed by defendants pending on April 30 as follows the Supreme Court In the High Court Extradition—Bight applications in~ volving 16 persons were made by the extra-Settlement authorities during the month, Prima facie cases were proved against them all and they were handed over.
Cases Pending—On April 90, there ]were pending in the High Court and District Court 67 cases, which with 88 on appeal, make a total of 185 Jeases pending. In addition to the Jabove, there were 18 cases pending in Which the accused were detained on writs of detention, sentences of imprisonment were sus~ pended in new cases and one on appeal.
Criminal Processes.—7,187 criminal processes. were forwarded to the Municipal Police for service; 690 criminal processes were [dealt with by the Judicial Polic Civil Processes—10,261 civil processes were dealt with by the process servers.
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