CONVICTIONS IN MAGISTRATES’ COURTS
A LOWER PERCENTAGE (THE SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Saturday. Although the number of persons appearing before the Magistrate’s Court increased between 1925 and 1926, the summary convictions per capita of populations decreased. The Government Statistician shows that the gross total of criminal cases in Magistrates’ Courts during the year 1926 was 56,122 males, being charged in 53,284 cases, and females in 2,838. The total for the year is 2,503 more than that for 1925. The 56,122 cases dealt with in 1926 resulted in 46,205 summary convictions, and in 987 committals to the Supreme Court for sentence after conviction in Magistrates’ Courts. In 624 cases the accused person was committed to the Supreme Court for trial, and in 905 the magistrate admonished and discharged the offender under a provision enabling him to do so in the case of a trivial offence, without a conviction being recorded. In 2,517 cases the charge was dismissed on the merits of the case, and in the remaining 4.884 cases the accused person was discharged for want of prosecution or want of evidence.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 129, 22 August 1927, Page 16
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