HC Deb 20 March 1879 vol 244 cc1310-1
MR. COLE

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he can inform the House how many of the 125 prisoners recently stated on the highest authority to have been acquitted at the Criminal Assizes in October and November last were charged with offences triable at Quarter Sessions?

MR. ASSHETON CROSS,

in reply, said, the number acquitted was 122, and not 125. Of that number 16 were chargeable with offences which could have been tried at Quarter Sessions.