Page 205 - Annuaire Statistique Québec - 1918

JUSTICE 175

The District Magistrates have jurisdiction thro'ughout the Provin-
ce. In penalllnd criminal matters they are invested with the same ju-
risdiction as that conferred upon judges of the Sessions of the Peace
and Police Magistrates by the Federal Parliament or the Provincial
Legislature as the case may be (1).

The following table indicates the number of cases tried in the
District Magistrates' Court, throughout the Province, in 1926. As a
resuit of 206 preliminary inquiries made, 167 cases were sent to the
assizes and there were 39 acquittais. As a result of 385 summal'Y trials
there were 302 convictions, 72 acquittals and 11 adjournments. Out of
158 speedy trials, there were 99 convictions, 52 acquittals and the other
7 cases were not finally judged. Under the act for the conviction of
juvenile deJinquents, there were 17 convictions, 2 acquittais, 2 adjourn-
ments out of 21 complaints. The figures in 1925 wel'e as folJows: pl'elim-
inary inquiries 236; summary trials, 333 of which 265 convictions and
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45 acquittaIs; speedy trials, 159 with 11 9 convictions and 32 acquittals;
young delinquents, 26 charges, with 23 convictions and 3 adjournments.

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Beauharnoie. 140 9,) 87 85 10 8 22 6 14 3 140
Bedrord 92 138 116 105 11 10 Il 26 7 27 202
Chicoutimi ..... 322 215 79 .. 60 5 ...... l 334
Gm';lJ(~;"I.t Peroe . 6 î> 3 3 Il 4 .. 12
Ga.•pe at New-Co.rJ. 29 16 16 18 2 5 ! 7 2 1· 8 43
Hull. 601 430 3H 2ZD 201 83 6 163 15 ·1 21 601
Hul1o.tBuclciogham 5 6 5 .. . .. 6
ibervjUe. . . , . .. .. ~2 87 82 50 23 11 24 ID 17 14 H4
Kn.moUTa~ka.... 68 83 76 54 18 4 10 7 4 2 8 89
Montmagny. 66 48 28 39 19 12 lü 4- 37 140
Nicolet.. Il 13 13 10 3 . . .... 13
Pontille ll~ BrYBoD., 12 20 17 14 3 3 6 15 3 2 1) 50
PooUacat V.-Marie 20 10 28 14 12 10 8 6 1 1 11 65
QuebecatLaTUQue .. 'M'. .. .... .... .. .. ' . . . 5 26
Richelieu. ....... JI! 77 44 35 9 1 11 2 7 2 9 94
Rimouôki .. . .. Illi'> 115 100 79 27 9 Il .. ... , . 30 173
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Roberval .. 114 92 92 47 34 Il 9 Il ... 16 128
St. Franois.. .... ~ 483 222 240 273 36 10 23 :H 29 10 68 505
St. Hyacintbo. " .. 48 23 . . .. ro 3 2 3 4 12 13 57
Terrebonne. ... 10 40 22 5 16 22 12 39 134
Tbree Rh:et"s ..... . .. 110 103 87 32 16 16 34 16 228
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(Il R. S. P. Q., 1925, ob. 145, art. 276.
E.traot lrom the Judie",l Sia/;.tie. of th. Pnn'i",~. of QI",l>e~. 19116.