A total number of 126,272 cases were prosecuted in the' Shanghai First Special Area District Court and the Kiangsu High Court, Second Branch, during the year 1940, as com~ pared with 118,779 eases in 1939. Out of the total number of cases pro-secured during 1940, 104.213 were Administrative Cases, and 32,080 were Criminal Cases, Out of the total number of Administrative Cases brought to trial, 63,323 persons failed to appear and their bail was confiscated, and 227 were withdrawn, as compared with 61,982 cases in which ball was confiscated and 199 cases withdrawn in 1939, 40,063 Administrative Cases were prosecuted to completion, out of which number 40,636 persons were convicted and 7 acquit ted, 1,305 Criminal Cases were withdrawn and 20,754 were prosecuted to completion, out of which number 18,787 persons were convicted and 1,907 acquitted, 'The total number of 'Administrative' and Criminal Case prosecuted to completion, was 61,417 as compared with $5,568 cases in 103 59443 persons were convicted and 1974 persons were acquitted, as com pared with 53,921 persons convicted and 1,047 persons acquitted during 1939, In addition, there were 1,180 Private. Criminal Prosecutions, " as compared with 1,550 in 1999, 3,710, prosecutions were' instituted "by the Public Health and Works Departments, as compared with 2,752 in 1080, 8,296 prosecutions were institut. ed by the 'Frame Department, as compared with' 2,517 in 1989,
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