§ Mr. Wylieasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what were the numbers of persons tried on indictments for, and the number of persons convicted of, murder, culpable homicide, assault to the danger of life, and assault to severe injury, respectively, in Scotland in each of the last 10 years to the latest convenient date.
§ Mr. RossThe following table sets out the number of persons proceeded against under solemn procedure who were convicted of murder, attempted murder, culpable homicide and assaults. I regret that information is not available about the charges on which persons were tried or on sub-classifications of serious assault (other than attempted murder).
Murder Attempted murder Culpable homicide Assault 1958 5 — 14 168 1959 5 3 14 230 1960 5 3 21 238 1961 4 2 13 228 1962 8 — 16 257 1963 3 1 16 257 1964 9 5 15 248 1965 15 8 18 305 1966 21 9 27 377 1967 26 10 23 423
§ Mr. Wylieasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the number of persons tried for, and the number of persons convicted of, capital murder and non-capital murder, respectively, in each of the years between 21st March, 1957, and 8th March, 1965.
§ Mr. RossThe table below sets out the number of persons charged with capital 151W murder and non-capital murder in the High Court of Justiciary, and the number of these persons convicted during the period from 21st March, 1957, to 31st December, 1964. I shall write to the hon.
Capital murder Non-capital murder Charged Convicted of capital murder Convicted of murder Charged Convicted of murder 1957 (1st March–31st December) … … 2 — — 5 2 1958 … … … 5 2 — 13 3 1959 … … … 5 1 1 8 3 1960 … … … 5 3 1 22 1 1961 … … … 3 — — 12 4 1962 … … … 6 1 2 21 5 1963 … … … 3 2 — 10 1 1964 … … … 2 1 1 19 7