G 3 Including 1 person remitted to prison, 1 person who committed suicide, and 2 persons who escaped. 23. Incest 26. Bigamy Indictable Offences. OFFENCES. (1) TABLE XXXVIII.-CRIMINAL LUNATICS.-Receptions into Asylums during the Year, and Numbers confined in Asylums on 31st December, 1926, classified according to Offences. The titles of the indictable offences in this Table are the same as in Tables I to III and of non-indictable as in Table IX, and the same rule is followed as in those Tables with regard to cases where the same person was charged with two or more offences. 2. 425. 22 19 11 131 63 131 1 6812 2 1. 1125 2 Total. Males. Females. (8) (9) (10) (11) Arraignment. Insane on of Guilty, but Insane. Special Verdict Certifield Insane before Trial. after Conviction. Certified Insane Under years. 2 years and under 5. 1353 173 111 45 40 3 6 9 11 29 10 4 11 1 1 1 1 3 4 2 6 .623 · 9 20 years and over. TABLE XXXVIII.—CRIMINAL LUNATICS.-Receptions into Asylums during the Year, and Numbers confined in Asylums on 31st December, 1926, classified according to Offences-continued. NUMBERS RECEIVED DURING THE YEAR. NUMBERS DETAINED ON 31ST DECEMBER, 1926. (2) CLASSIFICATION. (7) CLASSIFICATION. PERIOD OF DETENTION AS TOTAL NUMBER. King's Pleasure Lunatics. Secretary of TOTAL NUMBER. King's Pleasure Lunatics. Secretary of (12) (13) (14) (15) (3) (4) (5) (8) (9) (10) (11) Total. Males. Females. • Including persons "Acquitted on the ground of Insanity." Arraignment. Insane on of Guilty, but Special Verdict Insane.a Certified Insane before Trial. after Conviction. Certified Insane Under 2 years. 2 years and under 5. 5 years and under 20. 20 years and over. TABLE XXXIX.—EXERCISE OF THE PREROGATIVE OF MERCY. b Including 54 remissions of sentences for offences committed during the General Strike and Coal Dispute. NOTES TO TABLE XXXIX. (a) The classification of the grounds on which pardons, &c., are granted requires some further explanation : Column 3, "On grounds affecting the original Conviction," includes pardons or remissions of sentence granted on account of fresh evidence establishing the prisoner's innocence, or showing reasonable doubt as to guilt, or altering the view taken as to the legal character of the offence. Column 5, "On medical grounds," includes persons discharged solely on medical grounds, e.g., persons whose lives were endangered by imprisonment, and women near their confinement, who, if longer detained, would not have been fit for discharge at the expiration of their sentence. Where the medical condition of the persons formed only a part of the grounds for the exercise of the prerogative, the cases are tabulated under other heads. Column 7, "In simple mitigation of Sentence," in distinction from Column 3, comprises all cases where the mitigation granted does not imply any alteration of the view taken by the Court as to the prisoner's guilt or as to the legal character of his offence, but where weight is given with or without a recommendation from the judge or magistrate, to such extenuating circumstances as youth, provocation, mental disturbance, &c.; also cases where remission is granted for reasons not cognizable to the Court, as where a short remission enables a prisoner to avail himself of some special opportunity of making a new start in life. Column 8, "Other Cases."-Two soldiers convicted of comparatively slight offences who were released in order that they might be sent on foreign service. (b) "Remanet."—When a convict is released on licence he is liable, if again convicted, to undergo a term of penal servitude equal to the portion of his original sentence unexpired at the time of his release. This is known as a "remanet." |