The time element in criminal cases before the Georgia courts. Official project number 65-34-4543-p ; survey of criminal court procedure in Georgia

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SURVEY OF CRIMINAL COURT PROCEDURE IN GEORGI A S PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION ct GEORGIA __ OFFICIAL PROJECT NO. 6S-34-4543
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W 0 R K S P_ R 0 G- R E S S A D M I N I S TR A T I 0 N 0 F GE 0 R G I A

MISS GAY B. SHEPPERSON,

MILTON W. BLANTON, Coordinator of

Administrator.

Research and Statistical Projects.

THE TIME ELEMENT IN CRIMINAL CASES BEFORE THE GEORGIA COURTS
Official Project Number 65-34-4543

SURVEY OF CRIMINAL COURT PROCEDURE IN GEORGIA

William T. Thurman

Edward A. Terry, Su.pervi sor

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Sponsored qy the Georgia State Department of Public Welfare

T~E TIME ELEMENT IN (QtMIN AL CASES BEFORE T~E GEORGIA COUIHS

FOllEWOQO
This report on the time element in criminal cases before the Georgia courts is a by-product ot the Survey ot Criminal court Proced-
ure in Georgia, Official Project 65-34-4543.
The basic report of the above project was issued during the spring of 19~7. Atter data for the basic report were assembled, 1t was discovered that there existed marked variations in the diapos1t1on ot cases by the several courts Upon appl1cat1on of a few tests, 1t was ascertained that the size of the population center w1th1n each county was an important factor in the court activity of the locality. The counties in which the Survey of Criminal Court Procedure operated were divided, according to the size of the largest towns, into rural, ru-urban, and urban groups, and the data regarding the city and superior courts reassembled on that basis. The results of the tabulation were included in the first supplemental report, entitled "Rural, Ruurban, and Urban Georgia in Relation to Criminal Court Procedure,"
published in September, 1937
At the time the field work on the survey was in progress, workers were often questioned as to the length or time taken by the courts to dispose ot cases. The answer to the question is round in this second supplemental report. As in the case of the first supplemental report,
it was discovered, during the process of tabulation of some 234,324
cases from the trial courts in fifty-seven counties, that the time element varied widely in the several areas of the State; hence, the findings are broken down to show the differences in rural, ru-urban, and urban courts.
This study was completed under the general direction or Milton w.
Blanton, State Coordinator of Research and Statistical Projects. Analysis or the data tor preparation or the report was made by William T. Thurman, legal advisor on the survey, under the direction and supervision or Edward A. Terry, Project Supervisor. Special acknowledgment is made or the assistance or those members or the legal profession who carefully read and studied the report and reported its findings to be in keeping with their common experience.

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CRIMINAL COUrlT PROCEDURE

CLASSIFICATION Of COUNTIES STUDIED

LEG-ENO

RURAL

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RU-UU&AN

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URBAN

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T14fii:ME - ElEME NT IN C~IMI NAL _CASES f>EFOQE THE Gi=:o~GIA CouRTS

Once a widely read author wove into one of his stories the history of a case which had been in the courts of England for generations and still had not come to an end. While this incident is, of course, purely fiction, it does illustrate the popular belie.f that the functionings of the law in consummating cases before the courts are interminable. This belief has been followed by assertions that delay in judicial procedure has often resulted in miscarriages of justice. In recent times, there has grown up in this coun'k"y a widespread idea that the longer a

building its case a time consuming process. Another feature affecting delay is the fact
that courts, while in more or less continuous session, are not always sitting for trial. The judge is usually ready to hear .motions and pleas at almost any time, but he does not have assembled the other members of the court and cannot try cases until the others are present. Provision is made in the law for a special term when-
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ever the Judge deems it necessary, but it is rarely expedient to call the court into session for the trial of a single case. The number of

t~ial can be postponed in a criminal case the greater becomes the opportunity for a guilty defendant to obtain an acquittal. In order to ascertain whether there is a basis for such belief in Georgia, 234,324 cases from the trial courts in 57 counties were reviewed in the hope that these cases might throw some light on the time elements in criminal prosecutions.

terms of the Superior and City Courts is set by
(2)
law and, theoretically, is sufficient in nur:iber and length of session to handle the business before the courts. The number of terms, the frequency and length of sitting, are determined by amount of business; therefore, when the time element is being discussed, the number of terms of court each year is important in determining

VIEWPOINTS OF JUDICIAL PROCEDURE IN RELATION TO the months elapsing before disposition is ac-

THE TIME ELEMENT AS AN ABSTRACT PRINCIPLE OF SO- complished in the cases coming before it.

CIAL POLICY: It is generally agreed that the interests of the people are best served by dispositions of criminal charges being made as rapidly as is .consistent with the other interests of the people. These interests are many, and sometimes conflict in regard to accelerating Judicial process. First in the list is the desire that Justice be done, and in this connection is the fact that the defendant must have adequate time to prepare his case. This is an item which can be determined only by facts in each individual case and, while it sometimes allows for an

Consider for the moment, the Superior Court, the trial court of original Jurisdiction in this State. Its sessions vary widely. In those less populous sections of Georgia, the Superior Court has only two terms a year, while in the larger cities it is constantly in session. Manifestly, in those counties where cases are relatively few and all the criminal business for an entire year can be tried within a week or two, the cost of convening court and trying a defendant every time a suspect is arrested would be prohibitive.

immediate trial, it as often calls for delays. Deliberateness in the assembly of evidence and witnesses is not all chargeable to the defendant, since the prosecution a.lso often finds

The State is divided into Judicial circuits and one Judge presides usually over the court in
Sec. 24-3009 Ga. Code 1933. Sec. 24-2G09 ibid.

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many counties. If it were neceeeary to convene court at more frequent intervals, it would increase the number of judgeil-'and court attendants required, which would in turn cauee a tremendous increase in the cost of court service to the taxpayers. It will be readily seen, therefore, that there are certain practical matters from the viewpoint of public policy that are. at the outset, opposed to immediate trial of criminal cases in certain areas and that, eo far as judicial machinery is concerned, there is no more fault to be attached to a court in a epareely settled area, that waits five monthe to try a case, than to an urban court where trial le had within a few days after the case is docketed.
The situation is alleviated somewhat with respect to casee in which the defendant desires to make a plea of guilty. For most offenses and subject to certain conditions, the judge may convene court at any time and act upon the plea without a grand jury to bring an indictment or a
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pet it jury to aid in handling the case. Even this is subject to the practical difficulties of time and distance which must be considered when a judge presides over a number of counties. No picture of the time elapsing between docketing and consummation of criminal casee le complete unless full consideration ls given these factors which are beyond the control of the court and have to be weighed for each case. NOL PROS CASES: While there are several ways in which diepoeition can be made of a case in the Georgia Courts, the 'two moat ueual methods are trial and nol proe. This latter is_ lees affected by the terms of court, because this disposition can be accomplished at any time regardless of whether the court le then sitting. The
(4)
nolle prosequi, or nol pros, as it ls commonly called, has been defined as a formal entry upon the record by the prosecuting officer by which he declares that he will not prosecute the case

further. Its use datee back to earliest tlmes ln common law, ~~der which the prosecutor had sole authority to make such dlsposltlon of a charge. In Georgia, today, nol pros can be ac-
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compllshed only with the consent of the court: A case can be dropped by this method at any time after an accusation or indictment has been made. After the case ls submitted to the jury, however, a nol pros may not be entered except by the consent of the defendant. This consent ls necessary on the theory that once a trial h~e been begun, the defendant ls ln jeopardy and, since a nol pros ls not a bar to further prosecutlon for the offense, another action might be
(6)
brought and the defendant placed in double jeopardy.
Similar to a non ault in a clvll matter, a nol pros is not a final determination of a case, but merely a discontinuance of the action at that particular time. A new indictment may be found for the eame offense and the accused tried on a new proceeding. steps of this kind must be taken, however, before the Statute of Llmltatlons has run, except that a new indictment may be found within six months after the nol pros
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was effected. The reasons for the creation of the nol pros
are many. Under the grand jury system in use ln this State, the evidence concerning a crime or persons connected with lt, which is produced before that body, is often sketchy and indictments are found on grounds which may appear plausible, but have no foundation in fact. The solicitor, having more time and often more facilities for investigation, may discover that the charge against the individual named le groundless. In such a case, obviously, the nol pros ls the proper action to take. Often, lt may be impossible to procure the evidence necessary to conviction; witnesses may be unavailable, or other circumstances may exist which make lt inadvisa-

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(3) see.--WT-704 ibid.
(4) 14 c. J. 432.

(5) 27-1801 Ga, Code 1933. (6) 27-601 ibid. (7) Ibid.

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ble to try those cases. In such instances, it likely that tew cases would remain pending tor

ls lett to the discretion ot the solicitor, with

the consent

ot the.court,

to

---- remove

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such

cases

trom the docket. Frequently it occurs in the

commercial world that accounts, which have been

carried on the books tor a long time, are ac-

counted worthless and are charged ott. Simi-

larly, an ett1c1ent solicitor will wish to keep

his docket an active one and may use a nol pros

to charge ott old cases which will never become

triable.

ot the 234,324 cases studied by the Survey

indefinite periods -and tha~ at each term ot

TIME CONSUMED BETWEEN DOCKETING AND DISPOSITION OF Ct>.SES QESULTING IN NOL Pl20S

BY PEA CENTS JJ.NUJ.RV I, 1926, TMQOUGM DECEM&EA '31, 1q3~
URBAN, 12UURBAN. J.ND DURAL Cou11nes G0RGIA

PEQ CENT

---"F::;:::.:::;: 100 ,-~::;::,'~.:;:~::::;.::.:;::::;::::;;:"';

- :';::::;:::::;::'.,=I: - - r . - . - ,-.-.-.,. NO! AIClQTAINlBlE

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'::.;:,;.:;: 7411.os.e.ovEo
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80 ~-r~~""."'1----ll->+..,.._,....._}--111118 MOS.TO 74 MOS.

11 !IDS, TO 18 MOS.

ot Criminal Court Procedure in.Georgia, 30,965

cases, or 13.2 percent ot the total, were granted nol pros. The cases so treated represented

" /IDS. 10 9 llOS.

10.7 percent ot the cases disposed ot in the ur-
ban counties: 2o.6 percent ot those disposed ot

in the ru-urban counties, and 25.9 percent ot
the cases disposed ot in the rural counties. **

From a consideration ot these areas, it is probable that the lack ot facilities on the part ot

LESS 1\.l~N "30DAV5

the rural courts allows the dockets to be tilled
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with a greater portion ot untriable cases than

QUUQ~N

QUQ~L

in other regions.

Cl-IAQT NO. \

Quite naturally, in a consideration ot the court prosecuting off ioere would make an effort

time element, the question arises as to how long to dispense with all untriable cases. The time

a case should remain on the docket before a nol consumed between docketing and nol pros in the

pros is entered. Since any indictment is an at- 30, 965 cases tor which nol pros was the dis-

tack upon the reputation ot a private citizen, position, shows a varied pattern tor each area

that person le entitled to the privilege ot hav- studied and tor the several crime groups and in-

ing his name cleared as soon as possible; there- dividual crimes within each area. There are

fore, trom the standpoint ot public policy, when also marked differences in patterns of treatment

it le definitely determined that a case is un- as tar as the time element le concerned between

triable, or the necessary evidence unobtainable, the same crimes and crime groups tor the three

the attack should be abated and a nol pros en- areas. These difference's are detailed in Table

tered. It such a policy were carried out, it is 1 or the appendix. Chart 1 shows clearly the

** AUTHOR'S NOTE: For the Survey ot Criminal
Court Procedure in Georgia, the following detinition was adopted tor rural, ru-urban and urban counties: A rural county is one in which the largest incorporated population center contains not more than 2,500 people, according to the 1930 census, while an urban county is one in which there is located a city ot more than 25,000 people. A ru-urban county is one in which there is a municipality greater in population than 2,500, but less than 25,000.

differences in the three areas. Approximately 2S percent or the 30,965 cases
were granted nol pros within 30 days or the date ot docketing. The percents tor the ru-urban area are greater than this figure, while only about 21 percent or the cases in the urban area received such an expeditious disposition. Con-

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verselJ, the percents granted nol pros in the periods }O .to .. 60 .days, 60 to 90 days, and 90 days to six months, a:re greater-~.!n the urban area

non-support, malicious mischief, violations of regulatory measures and miscellaneous crimes). When the total cases are considered, 11.42 per-

TABLE I

DISPOSAL PATTERN OF SELECTED ASSAULT CRIMES AS SHOWN BY NOL PROS ENTRIES WITHIN LESS THAN 30 DAYS WITHIN LESS THAN SIX MONTHS AND 24 MONTHS AND OVER

IN PERCENTS

Less Than 30 Days Rural Ru-urban Urban

Less Than 6 Months
Rural Ru-urban Urban

24 Months and Over Rural Ru-urban Urban

Assault and Battery Pointing Pistol at Another Shooting at Another Stabbing Wife Beating

31.9
25.4 27.2 16.6 40.0

27.4 20.6
35.g 30.4 33.5

26.5 U\.g
6.9
14.g
24.7

52.9 57.0 84.2

51.9 53.4 56.3

~gj

51!..2
65.6

60.3 85.1

56.0 69.5 87.4

7.8 11.4

0.9

14.5 13.7 12.5

lg.g

1. 7

13.3

7.2

2.2

12.0 5.3 1.1

Source: Dockets of 57 Superior and 29 City Courts of Georgia.

than in either the rural or ru-urban. On the other hand, for each of the periods' after six months, the percents in the rural areas are l~rger than in the urban or ru-urban. If a period of less than six months ls used as a base, it ls found that the percents of cases nol prossed within that period are 49.66 for the ru-
ral; 62.42 for the ru-urban, and 73.19 for the
urban. If the several crime groups are shown against this base, the urban area shows larger percentages than either of the other two for all groups, except criminal homicides, arson, forgery, malicious mischief and miscellaneous crimes, while the ru-urban area, with the exceptlon of crimes against public justice, shows larger percentages than the rural area. The rural area, however, shows greater percentages of nol pros entered for criminal homicides and arson than does the urban.
For the period 24 months and over, except
for criminal homicides, larceny after trust and miscellaneous crimes, smaller percentages are shown in the urban area for all crime groups than in either of the other areas. In the ruurb~n area, the percentages are smaller than in the rural area for ten crime groups, and larger in ten. (Criminal homicides, larceny after trust, robbery, larceny, misuse of another's property, cheating and swindling, vice crimes,

cent of those in the ru-urban area were granted nol pros in this period as against 11.77 percent in the rural area.
It seems likely that the inherent attributes of the several crimes have some effect in determining the rapidity with which the cases are reviewed, the evidence summarized and weighed, and the determination made for a nol pros disposition. This, perhaps, accounts for the fact that a greater proportion of arson cases is held for a long period before disposition is made. Evidence for this crime is difficult to gather, and even more difficult to present. This same factor, perhaps, has importance as regards miscellaneous crimes, particularly that group with which the public is relatively unfamiliar.
Whether the number of sittings of the court, the attitude of the people, the equipment of the solicitor, or some unknown factor ls responsible for the apparently unaccountable pattern shown for criminal homicides, could not be ascertained. It may_ be that in the more rural sections, greater stress is laid on this crime and the prosecuting off lcers more quickly determined the value of the evidence presenting itself. Such may, also, be the case with charges of larceny after trust where the pattern ls somewhat similar to that of criminal homicides.
The inherent qualities show themselves more

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clearly when 1nd1v1dual crimes, rather than forgotten. Since the effect is s1m1lar, 1t ls

crime groups, are-viewed. In the rural area the quite probable that solicitors-general sometimes

percents o:f the caaes of ass-aaj.t -a_nd battery, nol pros a case where they :feel that conv1ct1on

po1nt1ng pistol at another, stabbing, and wl:fe would be doubtful.

beating, which were given nol pros w1th1n the CONVICTIONS AND AC~UITTALS: Differing from a

less than 30 day period were 31.9, 25.4, 16.6 nol pros, a trial does represent the legal de-

and 40.0, respectively. At the end of the s1x term1nat1on o:r a case, and nearly 6g percent of

months period, t~e percents having been so dis- the 234,324 cases docketed were brought to tri-

posed were 52.9, 51.9, 66.6 and 56.0. Essen- al. In the rural and ru-urban areas, the per-

tially, all these crimes are assault and ~ttery centages were not this great, while 1n urban

with emphasis on the method o:r making the as- areas the percentage was greater. These cases

sault, but the disposal pattern as among these are the ones 1n which consummation was effected

crimes ls quite different 1n this one area and 1n line with the theory upon which courts are

the pattern ls not :followed 1n the other two. established, and the court records show that

When percents for other similar crimes are d1spos1tion was accomplished :for 42.9 percent of

placed 1n such juxtaposition, like variations these 15g,634 cases w1th1n 30 days :from- the date

are clearly manifest.

they were brought, and that an add1t1onal 27.2

It appears :from the figures shown that the percent were tried between 30 and g9 days after

frequency of court sittings has some effect on docketing. The remainder were tried at various

the pattern and, if the :figures were thrown times, a few cases being handled as long as five

against a background of court terms instead of years after the or1g1nal indictment was brought.

calendar months, the difference between the three areas might tend to disappear. This ls

The length of time elapsing between the date of the 1nd1ctment and the date of trial ls af-

not feasible, however, since except for a few of fected by a number of :factors, among which the

the urban circuits, the number of court terms business before the court, the fac111ties of the

varies from year to year. This ls particularly prosecutor, the availability and the presenta-

true 1n those counties where the number of terms b111ty of the evidence, the.attitude o:r the peo-

provided by law is not sufficient to handle the ple and the :frequency of the court s1tt1ng are

business before the court, and 1t becomes necessary for the judge to sandwich in adjourned terms.

important. It ls likely that each of these influences the time element 1n each case 1n a di:ff erent way, but 1t ls logical to expect that,

Cases are brought 1n order that issues may be decided, but a nol pros does not represent a legal conclusion to the issue, since a new case can be brought on the same charge. From the standpoint of practical experience, however, a nol pros does represent a dec1s1on on the issue, since 1t ls the rare case 1n which a second 1nd1ctment ls drawn. Whenever a nol pros ls entered and no new 1nd1ctment brought, the action of the prosecutor has virtually the same effect on the defendant as an acquittal, 1n that he ls released and the accusation against h1m formally

w1th1n s1m1lar areas, s1m1lar effects would be noted..
In the urban areas, 96 percent of the cases tried are before the court 1n less than 6 months after the 1nd1ctment ls drawn, and 99 percent before 12 months have elapsed. S1m1larly, 90.6 percent are tried within 6 months 1n the ru-urban areas, and 96.g percent w1th1n 12 months. For the rural areas smaller percentages are tried 1n these periods. ln a twelfth month, often 6 terms of urban Superior Courts will be held and 12 terms 1n the City Courts, while the Superior

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Court will sit only twice in the rural areas during that same period. Misdemeanor oourts are qu1t ' general in"'rU-urban --eaunties but rarely

TIME CONSUMED BETWEEN DOCKETING AND DISPOSITION OF C-'S(S RESULTING IN CONVICTIONS .

P,y PER CENTS

Jll.WUARY I, 1'11'" TllROUGll OE.CEMBlll 31, ICJ3!;

UR&AN. DUURBAN, ANO II.URAL COUNTIES

m P0ED0CIJT
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GEORGIA
f.wv%,

H:rrrI~~~r:~ NOi ASCUITAlllABU

V

'I MOS.TO 17 Mos.

80 60~ 40

' 'JO DAV$ TO MOS.



O~'/STO'IODlllS

~~OINSTO'-OlltS

'ZO

LSS 1&.WI '30 DA.VS

0 UR&-.N

12UUl2SAN Cl-IART NO. 'l

RUR.-.L

function in the rural counties. Perhaps this taot has some bearing on the time element, since it is often possible tor a city or county court to tunotion with greater rapidity than the Superior Court with its larger personnel and more lengthy procedure. Furthermore, some courts of inferior Jurisdiction often hold what they term "Monday Morning Sessions". At these times, all those charged with misdemeanors may appear before the Judge and plead guilty. It is customary for the court to have only a minimum personnel in attendance and to dispose of oases more rapidly than when a full court is present and there are pleas of "Not Guilty to lengthen the evidence in an effort to obtain an acquittal.
Furthermore, when court convenes at any session tor the handling of criminal business, the prosecuting officers in the several areas im-

mediately present to the oourt those cases in whioh the detendan~. expresses a willingness to plead guilty and those cases in which the evidence is already available and in form to be heard by the court. Since pleas of guilty are
entered in 45.4 percent of the total cases dock-
eted and in 64 percent of the oases tried, it is no small wonder that a large portion ot the cases in each area is brought before the court tor disposition within less than 30 days after the indictment is drawn. Some types of crimes lend themselves more readily to this type\ of rapid treatment by the court than do others and suoh crimes form a large pro~rtion of the cases brought be:tore the Superior and C_ity Courts of the State. These easily triable .... cases usually consume the greater portion o:t the court's time and other oases seem to be postponed Until such time as the solicitor has opportunity to delve mor~ deeply into the evidence and to prepare them tor court action.
From the record or cases studied, it appears that the solicitor attempts to bring such postponed cases before the court at its next sitting. For the urban counties, since the court is in more or less, constant session, large vol-
umes of these oases are presented within 30 days
to 90 days after the original indictment has been drawn. In the ru-urban counties, where sittings of court are frequent, but not ~ontinu ous, large proportions of these cases are tried in a period from three to six months after the indictment is brought. On the other hand, in the rural areas, with sittings of court infrequent, it is in the period from three to six months that the second large proportion ot oases is handled by the courts. While these general patterns vary within each region tor.each crime group and for each individual crime, this is the general picture. In other words, the prosecuting otticers attempt to try the oases before th~ court immediately after the indictment or at the
first opportunity thereafter. Charts 2 and 3,

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as well as Tables 2 and 3 in the appendix, illustrate this.
The question 1s often askea 1f acquittals are more frequent in the cases that are delayed than in the cases where trial is immediately held. In the rural area, S4.9 percent of the cases tried within 30 days of docketing result in conv1ct1ons, while only 64.3 percent of those tried between lS and 24 months result in convictions. OP the other hand, for cases delayed 24 months or longer, the proportion of convictions is 7g.9 percent. In the other areas, there is not a continuing increase in the proportion of acquittals. However, in both urban and ru-urban areas, the percentage of acquittals granted in the period 24 months and longer is greater than in the period immediately following docketing.
It seems that after a case has been delayed for a single term, the advisability of bringing that case to trial becomes a factor of importance and that prosecuting officers seek some other method of disposal rather than trial whenever the outcome of the issue is definitely doubtful. There are four methods by which the solicitor can remove a case from the docket without bringing it to trial. The most important of these is through entering a nol pros. Others are transference to another court, dismissal of action, and releasing the defendant upon his demand for trial. These latter three types of disposal affected only 3.2 percent of the 234, 324 ca.see studied, and for purposes of this study were not reviewed because of their proportionative insignificance.
Since cases brought to trial and cases in which nol pros was the disposition constitute approximately 97 percent of the cases in the courts studied, consider for a moment that these constituted the total dispositions of cases. In this light, convictions would constitute a positive consummation of the issues involved and nol pros and acquittal the negative consummation. This arrangement was followed because a nol pros

is virtually the same as an acquittal in the
sense that it is a disposition of the case that
is not a conviction. While this arbitrary clas-
TIME CONSUMED BETWE[N DOCKET! N6 AND DISPOSITION
OF CASES RE SULTl NG IN ACQUIH~LS Bv PER CE.NTs
JANUARV I, 1"!'26, TMROU6M OECEJAllER 31, 1'!35 URBAtJ. QUUR&ll.N, ANO QURAL COUNTIES GEORGIA

UR&AW

RUUll.Ba.N CHA!H NO. 3

QURAL

sification is subject to the restrictions on nol pros set out in the beginning of this treatise, common experience of those familiar with court routine renders the classification a reasonable one, for all practical purposes.
A definite variation in this comparison is shown to exist among the three areas. Throughout the six months period, beginning with the docketing of the case, the time element appears relatively unimportant in a consideration of the percentages of convictions obtained by rural courts. After that time, the proportion of convictions decreases rapidly with each succeeding six months period, until two years have elapsed.

after which an increase occurs. It is likely that, after a case has remained on a rural docket for 24 months, another factor has entered the disposition picture and a vast portion of such

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EXl-llBIT I
PEQ CENT Cl-IANGE IN CONVICT IONS, ACQUITTALS, ANO NOL PQOS
fOQ NINE TIME PEQIODS JANUARY I, 1q'210, THROUGl-I DECEMBER 31, lq35
QUQAL, RU-UQBAN. AND UQ&AN COUNTIES GkORGIA

LESS Tl-IAN 30 OAVS

"O30 OAVS lO DAYS

'-0 OJ.VS lO 90DAVS

9o Ot.VS TO "IAON111$

RURAL

RU-URBAN

U~BA.N

cases ls conveniently lett pending. It will be remembered that 1n many rural counties the court has only two terms a year, so this consistency of ratio covers a period equal to one term ot court, thus g1v1ng a possible 1nterence that 1t ls 1ntluenced up to that point by the term of court ~ather than the number ot months tnterven1ng between docketing and trial.
In the ru-urban area, time 1n the first six

months atter docketing appears to be a much more important factor 1n the proportion ot convictions obtained than 1n the rural area. Around 66 percent of cases disposed ot 1n the t1rst 30 days 1n the ru-urban area are convictions. The proportion ot convictions increases until 1n the latter halt of the six months period 1t ls 80 percent. A rapid decline then takes place, reaching 23 percent at the end ot the two year

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Ell-II r.11 I (COll'flNUEO)

PEQ CENT CMANGE IN CONVICTIONS, ACQUll'lALS, ANO
foQ NINE TIME PERIODS
JANUll.QY I, 19'21D, TMl20UGH OliC~Ml!>'Q 31, 1q3G,
RUl2AL, Qu-UQ&ll.N, AND UQBAN COUNTl~S 6,0RGIA

NOL

PQOS

<. MON'HIS TO 9 MOllTIK

ct MOMHIS'fO
l'l MONTllS

l'l MONTMS'fO 18 MONTllS

18 MONTMS 'Tl)
~MONTl.\S

~ MOMTll~
AllDOVEll

period. In this area the proportion or convictions, arter the end or twenty-tour months, ie greater than in the time period Just preceding it. The difference here, however, is not so great as in the rural area.
For the urban area, the proportion or convictions begins its decline immediately and, while its descent is not particularly rapid in the first three months arter cases are docketed,

drops rapidly thereafter. In the first 30 days
arter docketing, around g7 percent or the dis-
positions resulted in convictions, while, after 2~ months, convictions are the disposition or only 20 percent or the cases. The figures tor all areas are shown in Table 2.
Broadly speaking, it may be said that ror rural counties the time element up to six months has little, if any, effect on the probabilities

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of a disoosition other than a conviction; for ru-urban areas, the probabil-i-ty of-conviction is decreased after 30 days; and for the urban

urban and 20 points in urban areas. From that point, it mounts upward, almost uninterrupted. Indeed, except for a slight drop in the rural

TABLE II

RELATION OF CASES RESULTlNG IN CONVICTIONS, ACQUITTALS AND NOL PROS IN RURAL.RU-URBAN AND URBAN GEORGIA
For Ten Time Periods as Shown by the Court Records Of 29 City and 57 Superior Courts

Time Periods
Less Than l Month 1 to 2 Months
2 to 3 Monthe 3 to 6 Months
6 to 9 Months 9 to 12 Months 12 to 18 Months lg to 24 Months over 24 Months Not Ascertainable 'l'OTAL

Total Number Percent

7,340 1,001 1,513 4,975 l,g92
gg6 970 556 9g2 431
20L.5_4-6

100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Convictions Number Percent

RURAL

4, 79g 6go
1,027 3,41g
933 412 371
2l~
lg7

65.4 67.9 67.9 6g.7
49.3 46.5 3g.3 16.5 25.1 43.4

12,164-

59.2

Less Than l Month l to 2 Months
2 to 3 Months 3 to 6 Months 6 to 9 Months
9 to 12 Months 12 to lg Months lg to 24- Months Over 24- Months Not Ascertainable TOTAL

19,095 6,127 7,8'+7
20,705 3,292 11,,471754 829 2,303 198
63,585

100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
100.0

RU-URBAN

12,64-'+ 4-, 7g5 5,984 16,571
l,~44
39g 193 588 130

66.2 78.1 76.3 80.0
51.6 41.9 28.2
23.3 25.5
65.6

4-3. 73'+

68.8

URBAN

Less Than 1 Month l to 2 Months
2 to 3 Months
3 to 6 Months 6 to 9 Months 9 to 12 Months 12 to 18 Months 18 to 24- Months Over 24- Months Not Ascertainable

50,4-25 16,089 16,74-6 15,31+9
3,191+ 1,264-
789 416 900 296

100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

4-3, 71+3 12,351 13,590 11,101
1,707 612 24-'+ 96 lg2 2go

TOTAL

105,4-68

100.0 83,906

Source'. Dockets of 57 Superior and 29 City Courts.

86.7 76.8 81.2 72.4-
a~:a
31.0 23.1 20.2 91+.6
79.6

Acguittals Number Percent

g57 170 217 g36 261 126 104-
g~
3
2,691

11.7 16.9 14-.3 16.g 13.g 14.2 10.7
9.2 6.7
.7
13.1

1,873 4-10 684-
2, 377
459 lgo 115 4-1 170
12
6,321

9.8 6.7 8.7 11.5 13.9 10.1 8.1
4-. 9
7.1+ 6.1
9.9

4-,176 1,821 1,4-90 1,71+2
359 13'+
5131 27
5
9,g18

8.3 11. 3
8.9 11.3 11.2 10.6
6.7 2.6 3.0 1. 7
9.3

Nol Pros Cases Number Percent

l,6g5 151 269
672l81
49~
4-13 670 21+1
5,691

22.9 15.1 17.8 14-. 5 36.9 39.3 51.0 71+. 3 6g.2 55.9
27.7

4-,578 932
1,179 1,757 1,136
851 901 595 1,5'+5
56
13,530

21+.o 15.2 15.0
8.5 31+.5
48.0
63.7 71.8 67.1 28.2
21.3

2,506 1,917 1,666 2,506 1,128
518 1+92 309 691
11
11, 74-'+

5.0 11.9
9.9
16.3 35.3 41.0
62.;
74-.3 76.8 3.7
11.l

group, the probability increases practically steadily after 30 days.
The situation, after six months, is somewhat startling. Between the six and nine months the ratio Jumps perceptibly. It moves upward by practically 20 points in rural; 29 points in ru-

area between the periods, 12 to 18 months and over two years, the climb is upward without a single dip in the curve, jumping between six months and over two years, a total of 52 points in the case of rural and urban, and 55 points in the ru-urban counties.

-10-

The conclus1'onbecomes, therefore, unescapable, that on the baS:is of th-1s---atudy, _wlth other
-
things being equal, after the first term of court has elapsed, the probabilities for one accused of crime obtaining a disposition of the case other than conviction are progressively greater or, in other words, khe longer a case remains untried, after the first term, the smaller are the odds in favor of conviction.
This conclusion is, however, susceptible of, at least, two interpretations. It may be that the element of time, involving delays which may mean loss of evidence, witnesses, etc., le in itself the sole explanation of the larger percents of dispositions other than convictions. On the other hand, there may be other influencing factors. Pleas of guilty, representing a large proportion of the cases trred, are always disposed of as quickly as possible, thus weighting the percent of convictions in the earl!-

est periods. Further~ore, the human inclination to do t~e easy thing first may result in solicitors putting cases in which they are practically sure of a conviction on the calendar first, and leaving those which will require more work and preparation until a later date. The same element may account for the very larger percent of nol prosses that are entered within six months after docketing. If this be true, the natural result would be that most of the cases, involving most of the convictions, would be tried immediately, leaving only those on the docket in which a conviction is doubtful from the outset. In this case, it would be reasonable to expect that solicitors would be sor.iewhat loath to try these cases and only do so when forced to oy the defendant. Under such a premise, it would be only logical that these cAses would result in a much smaller percentage of convictions than those tried earlier.

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APPENDIX

.. -...,,;,,

CRiflEs CRIMINAL HOMICIDES
Involur.tary Manslaughter Murder Voluntary Manslaughter

~ABLE l

PERIOD BETWEEN DOCKETING AND DISPOSITION OF NOL PROS CASE~

IN 29 CITY COURTS AND 57 SUPE.'l.IOR COURTS OF GEORGIA

- _ Janunry 1, 1926 - December 31, 1935

PART ONE - ffiJRAL

Total

...1"1 ..
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Number Percent

8J 8J 8J 35 100.0

10 28.6

4 11.4

14.35

2
5.7

. 2

1

2

5.7

2.8 5.7

3

2

1

30
2

10

4

2

1

3

2

2

3

l

2

1

1

CRIY.INAL A0 SAULTS

Number Percent

Assault
Assault and Battery A$f-Ault ~1th Intent to Y.urder AesRult with Intent to Rape Af-seult l't1th Intent to Rob BlacAmall Rnd Extortion
DPfRmRtion of Virtuous Female Hit and Run I/riving KldnApping Libel Y.Ayhem Peepir.g Tom Pointing Pistol at Another :I.Ape..
Shooting at Another Shuotlng at an Occupied Dwelling StAbbing Tralr~ ?:recking
Wife Bee.t1r1g

ARSON

Number Percent

Arson Destroying Houee with Explosives

1:4 721

- 196 30

100.0 27.2 4.2

77

86

40

66

63

84

26

10.7 11.9 5.5 9.2 8.7 11.6 3.6

20 357 168 12

4 114
35

23 3

20 12

3 32 18

4
50
11

1
20 10

1
2305

2
18 27

283 27

2
17
5

3

2

3

1

1

2

2

4

1

l

1

3

9

1

1

3

4

2

2

1

1

5~

14
2

7

7

9

1

5

4

8

2

2

22

6

4

3

1

3

2

1

2.

5

1

1

1

2

30

5

2

6

7

3

2

1

4

3

2

1

25

10

1

2

1

5

2

1

3

27 100.0 18J

4

2

1

1

14.8 7.4 3.7 3.7

13

1

48.1 3.7

27

5

4

2

1

l

13

1

BURGLARY ROBBERY

Number Percent
Number Percent

LARCENIES

Number Percent

Breaking, Enteri~g and Stealing Breaking, Enteri~g Vehicle l.Arceny,
Laroeny, attempted Larceny from House Larceny from Person
LRrceny of Automobile Larceny of Farm Animals Simple Larceny

LA.'lCEl;IEs AFTER TRUST

Number Percent

Embezzlement Larceny After Trust Removal of Mortgaged Property Sale of ~ortgaged Property

;,:BUSE OF ANOTYER 'S PROPERTY

Number
Pe~cent

K1lling Farm Ani~ale Trespass
Using Auto without Owner's Consent Using HorSe without Owner's Consent

:HEATING AKO SWINDLING

Number Percent

Cheating and Swindling Obtaining Money Under Felae Pretense

'?':IRGERY

Number Percent

Forgery

Operating A Slot Machine with Slugs

Personating Another



CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE

Number Percent

Bribery
Embra~ery
Escaoee Malp;.acti ce by Public Officer Obstructing Legal Process Per!or:DAnce of Police Duties, illegally Per Jury Resisting an Officer

174

48

100.0 27.6

6 3.4

6

22

20

3.4 12.6 11.5

10 5.7

13 7.5

11
6.5

203.15

3 1.7

44

17

100.0 38.6

6.83

11.a

11.~

7 15.9

6.83

4 9.1

665

239

100.0 35.9

6 0.9

31 86 4.7 12.9

66 9.9

7~~

41 6.2

44 6.6

63 9.5

64.oo

7

7

-.

1

1

l

1

44

11

2

9

5

3

4

4

6

_,

13"
19 578

l

1

3

4

3

1

2

5
211

l
5

1
28

2 75

4 52

1
45

3 30

l
38

1
54

40

92

26

100.0 28.3

3
3.3

4 4.3

g

12

IS. 7 13.0

8
IS. 7

8 8.7

9

11

9.8 11.9

3
3.3

11

3

2

1

2

1

1

1

35 31 15

7 12 4

2

3 1

l 3 2

a 2 3

2

1

5 2

4 5 2

1

3

3

60

-

29

1

100.0 48.3 1. 7

6

6

10.0 10.0

2
3.3

2

7

3. 3 11. 7

6.74 l 5.03

1

1

5~

24

l

4

6

6

2

2

7

4

3

292

- 103

100;0 35.3

8
2.7

9

34

38

3.1 11.6 13.0

22 7.5

23 7.9

18

35

6.2 12.0

2
0.7

291
1

103

8

9

34

37

22

23

18

35

2

1

42

-

6

100.0 14.3

2 4.8

2
4.8

4

8

9-5- 19.0

3

8

7.1 19.0

2 4.8

3 7.2

4 9.5

21

-

4

1

1

7

1

3

2

2

21

-

2

2

1

3

l

2

5

1

4

26 loo.o-

8 30.8

1
3.6

6

6

1

3

1

15

2

-14-

8

l

30.8 3.8

1 2
6

11.53 3

5 19.3
1
4 -

TABLE l

PERIOD BETWEEN DOCKETING AND DISPOdI'rION OF NOL PROS CASES (CONT'D) PART ONE - .RURAL

CRIMES

CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC PEACE

Number Percent

Bribery Operating Auto while Drunk Rioting

OFFENSES RELATED TO SEX

Number Percent

Adultery and Fornication Attempted Beastiality or Sodomy Bigamy Incest Seduction Sodomy and Beastiality

VICE CRIMES

Number Percent

Cock Fighting Gambling Lottery Maintaining a.Lewd House Maintaining an Opium Joint Public Drunkenness Public Indecency Using Obscene Language

OFFENSES RELATED TO PUBLIC POLICY Number Percent

Jisturbing Divine Worship Receiving Stolen Property Usury Vagrancy Violation at the Sabbath

llALICIOUS MISCHIEF

Number Percent

Cruelty to Children and Animals Firing Woods l!alicious Mischief

VIOLATIONS OF THE PROHIBITION LAW Number Percent

VIOLATIONS OF REGULATORY MEASURES Number Percent

Barbering without License Defacing Public Property Failure to Pay Occupational Tax Illegal Arrest Interfering with Laborers Peddling without License Practicing Profession without License Receiving Unstamped Tobaccos Violation or Banking Regulati~ns Violation or Common School Lawe Violation or County Health Lawe Violation or Election Lawe Violation or Game Law Violation or Highway Regulations Violation at Motor Carrier Laws Violation or Motor Vehicle Law Violation or Protessional Bondsmen Act Violation or Security License Law Violation or Timber Law

!ION-SUPPORT

Number Percent

Abandonment Bastardy

MISCELLANEOUS CRIMES

Number Percent

Felonies

Number Percent

Felony, blanket charge Felony, miscellaneous Poisoning Well Possessing 81rglary Tools Possessing Counterfeit Type

lliedemeanors

Number Percent

llisdemeanor, blanket charge Misdemeanor, miscellaneous

TOTAL

Percent

Total

~
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. .. .-<a!
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0
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. ..
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4-00

128 10 18 4-8 4-7

- 100.0 32.0 2.5 4-.5 12.0 11.8

24-4-
211

4i

7
1

11 6

~~

27 15

4-5

8

2

l

9

5

108

24-

- 100.0 22.2

2.83

7 6.5

18 16.7

11 10.2

9 8.3

71

15

2

5 16

8

7

7

3

2

2

28

6

l

2

2

l

2

572

14-6

100.0 25.5

8
l.4-

74.-o0

82
14-.3

7412.9

82

10

3

4- 18

9

3

12

l

2

4-

3

378

119

25 52 4-7 17

1

99

17

l

10 10 14-

5

117

50

- 100.0 4-2. 7

6 14- 16 5.1 12.0 13.7

5 4-.3

77

38

13

3

2

7

8

3

3

5

l

16

6

11

3

4-

3

l

67

24-

100.0 35.8

5

6

7.5

9.0

20

8

11 36

115

1

3

2

5

6

3

l,277

326 22 4-2 200 170 67

- 100.0 25.5 l. 7 3.3 15-7 13.3 5.2

127 100.0 34-. 7

16 4.4-

10 2.7

4-7 12.a

103.48

22
6.0

16

g

l

l

l

l

l

l

7

7

7

2

l

2

l

4

l

l

2

l

l

13 207

705

3 9

l
5 24- 27

4 6

3

2

l

91

28

3

3 19

9

g

l

6

89

19

- 100.0 21.3

3-~

7 11 16 7.9 12.3 17.9

7 7.9

67

13

l

4- 10 11

5

22

6

2

3

l

5

2

517

154-

28

26

42

70

4-9

- 100.0 29.s 5.4- 5.0 8.1 13.5 9,5

27

l

l

4-

- 100.0 3. 70 3.70 14-.81

2

4-

7.4-1 14.81

17

l

1

1

7

3

i

3

2

490

153 27 22

68

- 100.0 31.2 5.5 4-.5

13-9

486

153 27 21

67

4-

1

1

5,691

- 1,685 151 269 721 698 348

- 100.0 29.61 2.65 4.73 12.67 12.27 6.11
-15-

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22 545.5 13.5

14- 34-

3 13

5

7

9

8 14-

8.3 7.4- 13.0

4-

5

6

2

3

3

6

18

5

6

1

1

22 4-7

l

11

16

8

4-

6.8 3.4-

6

2

l

l

2

2

4-.53 lo.4

l

i

2

3

110 8.6

67.07

22
6.o

37
10.l

l

3

4-

l

3

2

2

16

28

lO

6

2

8

7

9.0 7.9

g

5

2

51 52 9.9 10.l

2

11

7.41 4-0.75

1

9

2

l

10
l
8
9.0 7
l
4-3 8.3
2
7.4-1
l l

4-1 4-1 8.4 8.4 41 41
. 495 4-13 670 8. 70 7.26 11.77

<
.;
\43.5
8 6
d
3 2 21 3.8 6 11 4-
2 l 2
3.0
2
12
3-~
3
2
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o.42
2
24-1 4.23

CRIMES CRIMINAL HOMICIDES
Involuntary Manslaughter Murder Voluntary Manslaughter

TABLE l

PERIOD BETWEEN DOCKETING AND DISPOSITION OF NOL PROS CASES

IN_29 CITY COURTS AND 57 SUPERIOR COURTS OF GEORGIA

January l. 1926 - December 31, 1935

PA.qT TWO - RU-URBAN

TotRl

.... ..,",
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0
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Number Percent

57 100.0

34-
59. 7

l
l. 7

2

7

3.5 12.3

2

3

l

7

3.5 5.3 l. 7 12.3

6

l

l

50
l

3i

2

6

l

l

2

l

2

l

5

CRIMINAL ASSAULTS

Number Percent

Assault Assault and Battery Assault with Intent to Murder Assault with Intent to Rape Assault with Intent to Rob Blackmail and Extortion Defamation or Virtuoue Female Hit and Run Driving Kidnapping Libel MRyhe:n Peeping Tom P:iir;ting Pistol at Another Rape
Sh:>-:>t1r.g at Another Sh,1oting at an Occu;iied Dwelling Stobbir.g Train Wreckln~ W1fe 9e~ting

A'iSOI'

Number Percent

Arson ~estroy1ng House w1t}\ Expl slves

1, 795

524 112 163 257 170 128 157 81 196

7

100.0 29.3 6.2 9.1 14-.3 9.5 7.1 8.7 4-.5 10.9 0.4-

58 1,014-
24-7 14
5

16

6

lj.

9

lj.

lj.

7

l

lj.

278 7~

63 2
l

96 14-1 107

23

32

21

l

2

l

72 22
l

93 24

~4

116 30

l

3
i

l

2

l

l

2

l

l

185

2 lj.

l

l

l

2

8

2

2

6

2

lj.

9 58 38 53 9 125
131
23 100.0

l~
18 19
3 38
44-
B 34-.8

l

l

lj.

5

4

l
3

12 13

16 12

l
4.3

l

l

10

lj.

6

l

7

l

2

19 15

l

l

7
g 5

4
2 6

3
~
5

8 2 10 l
9

19 12

lj.

10

7

7

3 13.0

l 4.3

8

2

34-.9 11.7

23

8

3

8

2

BURO.LARY RGBESRY

Number Percent
t\u:nbe1: Percent

i..AR (:Er~! ES

Number Percent

Breaking, E,,tering and Stealing
B~eHklng, ~r.terlr.g Veh1cle Larce:.j' Larceny, Rtte'1pted
Le.r.Jen:1 fro::;. H.n1ee Larceny from Person
Larceny of A~tomobile Larceny of Farm Animals Si11;ile Larceny

:..A!<::;;.:~:rss AF'!':::?. TRUST

Number Percent

E:Lbezzlement Larceny after Trust Rer:iov~l of Mortgaged Property 3Ale of ~ortgBged Property
!LlS'JSE CF ANOTHER' s PROPERTY

Number Percent

Killing Farm Animals Trespass
Using Auto without Owner 1 e Cor.sent Using Horse without Owner's Consent

CHEA":'Il\G AND SllINDLH-G

Number Percent

Cheati~g and Swindling Obte ir_ing l!oney under FRlse Pretense

FOR~ERY

Number Percent

Forgery Operating a Slot Machine with Slugs Personat1ng Another

CRil!ES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE

Number Percent

Bribery Embracery Escapee
Mal;iractl~c by Public Officer nbstructing Legal Procees Performance or Police Duties, illegally Perjury Resieting an Officer

316 100.0
59 100.0

135 42.7
27 4-5. 7

1,698 100.'J
18 12
l
68 4 53 28 1,514-
322 100.0
25 178
67 52 136
100.0
l
102 30 3
1,015 100.0
1,007 8
174 100.0
166
8

566
33.3 7
l 32
16
8 502
s6 26.7
2
43 28 13 4-6 33.8
349 3 322 31.6 321
l
82 47.2
79 3

44

14-

100.0 31.11

l

l~

9

3

l

8

l

9

3

-16-

16

15

29

20

31

11

5.1 4-. 7 9.2 6.3 9.8 3.5

2

2

6

2

l

l

3.4 3.4 10.2 3.4 l. 7 1.7

132 130 224- 143 110 112
7.8 7.7 13. 2 s.4 6 5 6.6

2

l

l

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l

2

l

4

3

2

5

4

7

3

5

2

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4

9

l

7

2

9

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2

126 117 202 122 102

94

28 8.7

14- 45 4-. 3 14.o

28 8.7

27 8.4-

31 9.6

2 13

l 9

7 28

l
18

183

lj.
12

10 3

2 2

6 4

4 3

2

3 13

6

10

16

15

11

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4.4- 7.4 11.8 11.0 8.1 10.2

l

5

6

10

10

10

11

l

3

6

5

l

3

78 7.7

92 14-o 9.1 13.8

83 8.2

63 6.2

66 6.5

78

92 14-o

81

61

65

2

2

l

14-

19

8.0 11.0

15 8.6

148.0

2.95

10 5.7

14 18 14- 12

l

1

2

5

10

d

6.83

7 15.9

3 6.8

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9.1

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2

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2

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23

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7.9 7.3 3.5

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2

lj.

lj.

5

l

l
5

4 l

l

86 163

10 52

l

3.1 16.2 0.3

l

lj.

lj.

32

l

~

8 8

6 12 4.4 8.9

5

11

l

l

39 127 3.8 12.6

5
0.5

39 125

5

2

lj.

9

2

2.3 5.2 l.l

4

8

2

l

2
4-.6 11.4

l 2

2

2

~

TABLE l

PERIOD BE'l'WEEN DOCKETING AND DISPOSITION OF NOL PROS CASES (CONT'D) PART TWO - RU-URBAN

..".0..0.

+O' .'ci:l

NO

CRIMES

Total

.-<:.!

CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC PEACE

Number Percent

l,05g

433

- 100.0 40.9

68 6.4

133
12.6

so 7.6

64 6.o

64 6.o

Carrying Deadly Weapons Operating Auto while Drunk Rioting

OFFENSES RELATED TO SEX

Number Peroent

Adultery and Fornication Attempted Beastiality or Sodomy Bigamy Incest Seduction Sodomy and Beastiality

605 132303

291
~

38 20 10

49 36 5

65 58 10

2358 17

30 20 14

30 23
11

240

76 24 34 22 26 11 12

- 100.0 31.7 10.0 14.2 9.2 10.8 4.6 5.0

200

61 23 2g 19 25

g

9

7

4

3

2

l

l

29

10

1

3

3

2

2

l

VICE CRillES

Number Percent

l,146

434 57 112 137

100.0 37.9 5.0 9.s 11.9

71 6.2

Cook Fighting Gambling Lottery lla1nta1ning a Lewd House llaintaining an Opium Joint Public Drunkenness Public Indecency Using Obscene Language

OFFENSES RELATED TO PUBLIC POLICY Number Percent

Disturbing Divine Woreh1p Rece1v1ng Stolen Property Usury Vagrancy Violaticn or the Sabbath

MALICIOUS llISCHIEI'

Number Percent

291

96 10 31 39

9 14 19

9 25

3

l

3

3 3

2 6

4

l

l

73g

295 44 70 82 56 41 43

2

1

l

Sl

36

2

5

7

5

g

g

351

170 31 27 25 27 26 15

100.0 48.4 8.8 7.7 7.1 7.7 7.4 4.3

69 28

9 10

5

3

g 6

9 5

13
g



134

68 17. 12

9

11

4

3

14

5

2

2

2

l

183

72

g

g

28

15

13

11

100.0 39.3 4.4 4.4 15.3 S.2 7.1 6.0

Cruelty to Children and Animals Firing Woods llaliclous M1sch1et VIOLATIONS OF THE PROHIBITION LAW Number
Percent VIOLATIONS OF REGULATORY MEASURES Number
Percent

39 19 125

21
4~

3
2
3

i
4

2,628

906 148 206

- 100.0 34.5 5.6 7.11

g9g

308 64 71

- 100.0 34.3 7.1 7.9

4

2

2

2

2

l

1

22

11

10

10

256 176 ISO 9.7 6.7 6.9

91 40 43 10.l 4.5 4.S

Barbering without License Derac1ng Public Property Failute to Pay Occupational Tax Illegal Arrest Interrer1ng with Laborers Peddling without License Practicing Profession without License Receiving Unstamped Tobaccos Violation of Banking Regulations Violation or Common School Laws Violation or County Health Laws Violation or Election Laws Violation or Game Law Violation or Highway Regulations Violation or Motor Carrier Laws Violation or Motor Vehicle Law Violation or Proressional Bondsmen Act Violation ct Security License Law Violation ot Timber Law

NON-SUPPORT

Number Percent

Abandonment Bastardy

MISCl!:LLANEOUS CRI~ES

Number Percent

13

l

l

7 93

3 33

6

2
9

l

l

4

2

10 39

205

l
6

2

5 g

1

l

l

1

3 220
11

642 14 16 l

18

9

5

l

452

156 30 39

5

2

l

2

2

6

3

257

60

lu- 100.0 23.3 48

12

lS 7.0

33 12.S

13 24

5

9

1,130

275 122 147

- 100.0 24.3 10.8 13.0

l

23

2

l

4

l

1

l

3

2

l

l

4

l

22

32

13

6

2

2

61 47 24 30

l

l

l

l

32 20 18 12.5 7.s 7.0

17 14 15

15

6

3

54 54 79 4.8 4.S 7.0

Felonies

Number Percent

6S

-

32

3

l

9

3

1

7

100.0 47.06 4.41 1.47 13.24 4.41 1.47 10.29

Felony, blanket charge Felony, miscellaneous Poisoning Well Possessing Illrglary Tools Possessing Counterfeit Type

58

26

3

7

3

7

~

2 4

l

l

l

l

Misdemeanors
Misdemeanor, blanket charge Misdemeanor, miscellaneous TOTAL Percent

Number Percent

1,062

243 119 146 128

- 100.0 22.9 11.2 13.7 12.l

51 4.S

53 5.0

72 6.s

1,039 23

234 117 140 127 50 52 72

9

2

6

l

l

l

13,530

- 4,57g 932 1,179 1,757 1,136 851 901

- loo.o 33.s3 6.s9 s.71 12.99 s.4o 6.29 6.66

-17-

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o",".>"."<,'

34 87 3.2 8.2

16 47

15 34

3

6

21 14 s.7 5.11

18

9

3

4

1

32 160 2.1! 13.9

10 60

4

3

18 gg

9

7 22 2.0 6.3

6 10

l

l

9
2
4 24 2.2 13.1

2

2

l

2

21

131 260 5.0 9.9

35 3.9

IC>6 11.8

l
5 10

3

2

l

5

2

15 3g
l
12 46

g

32

3.1 12.5

6 30

2

2

45 213 4.0 18.S

l

10

1.47 14.71

l

10

44 203 4.1 19.l

42 202

2

l

595 1,545

4.40 11.42

oJ
4
l
o.~
3
l l l
0.3
l
g 0.3
3 0.3
l
l l
l
o.4
l 4
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l
l.47
l
3 0.3
3 .41

CRIMES CRIMINAL HOMI ~IDES
Involuntary lllnslaughter Murder Voluntary Manslaughter

TABLE 1

PERIOD BETWEEN DOCKETING AND DISPOSITION OF NOL PROS 6ABES

IN 29 CITY COURTS AND 57 SUPERIOR COURTS OF GEORGIA

January 1, 1926 - December 31, 1935

PART THREE - URBAN

Total

J"!l ..
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'Q "")"Q' "'"'

0
V)
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0
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Number

104

-

13

6

11

19

9

11

9

9 17

Percent

100.0 12.5 5.9 10.6 18.3 8.6 10.6 8.6 8.6 16.3

27 77

-

3

-

10

3 3

~

8 11

1 8

2 9

1 8

2

4

7 13

CRIMINAL ASSAULTS

Number Percent

Assault

Assault and.Battery

Assault with Intent to Murder

Assault with Intent to Rape

Assault with Intent to Rob

Blackmail and Extortion

Defamation or Virtuous Female

Hit and Run Driving

Kidnapping



Libel

r.<.ayhem

Peeping Tom

Pointing Pistol at Another

Rape

Shooting at Another

Shooting at an Occupied Dwelling

Stabbing

Train wrecking

Wife Beating

A.""50N

Number Percent

Arson Destroying House with Explosives

2,073

-

100.0

11 990 349
1~2'

13 12
l 4
l
16 31 58 9 317

190

30 100.0

30

431 372 308 514 20.8 17.9 14.9 24.8

26~
41 4 6 3
2 1

2

2

2

169 45
g
l

15346
' 2
1

247 83 11 4 4 4 4

1

1

l

3
4

1 3 8

2 12

~
11

1

4

3

47

83

59

81

47

47

24

48

1

2

2

3.4

6.7 6.7

1

2

2

201 9.7
l
90 53
3 2
1 1 1
5 5 10 18
11
7 23.3
7

73 3.5 22 20
4
1
3 7
1 13
2
5 16.6
5

59 2.8
18 21 1 1
3
2
5 6
2
id
5

45

70

2.2 3.4

1

17 17

3g

1

2

1

4

2
2
~

3

7

7

2

8 26. 7
g

BURGLARY ROBBERY

Number Percent
Number Percent

416

-

80

70

57

61

49

100.0 19.2 16.8 13.7 14.7 11.8

19 4.6

29 7.0

4 44 1.0 l0.5

3 0.7

9:4 244

-

44

4o

42

53

21

100.0 18.2 16.4 17.2 21.7 8.6

5 2.0

3 1.2

12 4.9

1
o.4

LARCENIES

Number Percent

Breaking, Entering and Stealing Breaking, Entering Vehicle Larceny Larceny, attempted
Larceny from House Larceny from Person Larceny or Automobile Larceny of Farm Animals Simple Larceny

LARCENIES AFTER TRUST

Number Percent

Embezzlement Larceny after Trust Removal or Mortgaged Property Sale of Mortgaged Property

!!.ISUSE OF ANOT-!ER'S PROPERTY

Number Percent

Killing Farm Animals Trespass
Using Auto without Owner's Consent
Usir.g Horse 111'1thout Owner's Consent

CHEATING AND SWINDLING

Number Percent

Cheating and Swindling Obtaining Money under False Pretense

FORGERY

Number Percent

Forgery Operating a Slot Machine with Slugs Personating Another

CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE

.Number Percent

Bribery Embracery Escapes llalpractice by Public Officer Obstructing Legal Process Performance of Police Duties, illegally Per Jury Resisting an Officer

1,960

492 423 308 354 142

64

58

48

71

100.0 25.1 21.6 15.7 18.1 7.2 3.3 3.0 2.4 3.6

31 21
2
5 107 14 187 13 1,580

10 5

6 2

2 4

3 3

2
3

2 1

2

2

2
3

2

2

1

1

1

18
6~

2,17 3

13 2 31

16 2
20

13 10

5 2 12

g
6

7 10

6

l~

2

2

1

386 365 251 310 112

1 41

42

,6

43

410

66

50

42

65

46

100.0 16.1 12.2 10.2 15.9 11.2

24 5.7

20 4.9

9

88

2.2 21.6

26
34~

4 51

3 45

32,

2 52

5 20

22

3 15

9

1

8

19

2

2

7 9 81

9

2

1

1

3

2

68

15

15

19

9

100.0 22.1 22.0 27.9 13.2

7.~

2 2.9

1 1.5

1 1.5

1 1.5

29

5

7 12

2

2

1

38

10

8

7

7

2

2

1

l

l

44o

127

71

45

83

45

100.0 28.9 16.2 10.2 18.9 10.2

19
4.3

3~~

5
1.1

30 6.8

436 4

i24 71

45

83

45

19

15

5

30

130

21

30

15

20

100.0 16.2 23.1 11.5 15.4

9 6.9

4 3.1

2 1.5

9

20

6.9 15.4

87

20 13

5

19

9

4

2

2

13

43

1

17

10

1

7

7

79

-

15

8

5

16

9

9

4

3 10

100.0 19.l 10.1 6.3 20.2 11.4 11.4 5.1 3.8 12.6

18 6

4

2

1

1

~

1

6

4

6

2

2

1

1

7

6

1

l

1

26 15

4 4

2 2

2 2

4 4

5 3

3

4

2

-lB-

TABLE l

CRillEB CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC PEACE

PERIOD BETWEEN DOCKETING AND DISPOSITION OF NOL PROS CASES (CONT'D)

. .

.

PART THREE - URBAN

.,

Total

0

"0 '

+>
....

:ID.-

''"''

. "...'. 1l

"...'.
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~."0,>~<"

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:>IN
"....'0.,

Number Percent

875

137 141 168 215

91

- 100.0 15.7 16.l 19.2 24.6 10.4

41

20

4.7 2.3

Carrying Deadly weapons Operating Auto while Drunk Rioting

629
2i~

106 28

107
34

l~

3

l

65 25
1

22 11 12

14

7

9

5

2

2

OFFENSES RELATED TO SEX

Number Percent

234

43

38

30

- 100.0 18.4 16.2 12.8

11 4. 7

2.25

11 4.7

Adultery and Fornication Attempted Beast1ality or Sodomy
Bigamy Incest Seduction Sodomr and Beastiality

31

30

24

l

l

1

4

5

4

1

8
3

3
2

6 4

6 2

l 2

5
1

VICE CRIMES

Number

947

182 122 153 210

87

40

51

Percent

- 100.0 19.2 12.9 16.l 22.2 9.2 4.2

5.4

Cock Fighting Gambling Lottery Maintaining a Lewd House llaintaining an Opium Joint Public Drunkenness Public Indecency Using Obscene Language OFFENSES RELATED TO PUBLIC POLICY Number
Percent

5j~
51
258 16
33
505
- 100.0

108 13 7
41 6 7
161 31.9

74 14.6

82 5 8
52
3 3
59 ll.7

106 2
13
75
ii
95 18.8

55
2
4
24 1 1
58 11.5

30

46

41

l

2

5

2

3

7 10

2

1

4

9

10

21

1

1.8 1.9 4.2 0.2

Disturbing Divine Worship Receiving Stolen Property Ueury Vagrancy Violation of the Sabbath
MALICIOUS MISCHIEF

Number Percent

18

6

2

6

2

1

1

l~

20

21

24

22

46

l

3 30

~

i

4
1

8

12

1

280

95

45

29

37

51

11

3

1

7

1

3

l

l

l

~

~ u

~ u

~

100.0 15.l 22.2 l0.3 14.3 ll.9

d

6

10

4.8 7.9

Cruelty to Children and Animale Firing woods llalicioue Mischief

39

6

9

l

8

6

87

13

19

12

10

9

3

2

4

4 10

VIOLATIONS OF THE PROHIBITION LAW Number Percent

1,889

390 281 246 44-9 207

- 100.0 20.6 15.0 13.0 23.11 10.9

88 4.7

30 1.6

611.o3

VIOLATIONS OF REGULATORY MEASURES Number

799

155

91

180

61

61

Percent

- 100.0 19.5 11.5

22.5 7.6

7.6

Barbering without License

21

14

6

l

Defacing Public Property

4

2

l

1

Failure to Pay Occupational Tax Illegal Arrest

112

10

15

8

5

9

4

4

9 17

l

6

4

2

Interfering with Laborers Peddling without License

6

2

3

l

Practicing Proteseion without License

Receiving Unstamped Tobaccos Violation of Banking Regulations Violation ot Common School Laws

235

31

14

16

75

7

10

46

30

2

4

27

1

26

l

1

Violation ot County Health Laws Violation ot Election Laws Violation of Game Lew Violation of Highway Regulations

4
4144

4

8

5

1
8

1
5

6 5

2

1

l

1

1

1

Violation of Motor Carrier Laws

9

6

2

1

Violation of Motor Vehicle Law Violation of Professional Bondsmen Act

325

74

55

49

74

25

27

g

5

Violation of Security License Law

16

2

11

3

Violation of Timber Law

2

1

1

NON-SUPPORT

Number Percent

~

~

~

% ~

~

12

!!

4 10

- 100.0 19.1 19.1 13.7 23.7 ll.5 4.6 3.0 1.5 3.8

Abandonment Bastardy

~60

1" 1

1346

279

1~ 0

M 6

8 4

7
l

3
1

8 2

MISCELLANEOUS CRIMES

Number Percent

153

64

5

14

21

- 100.0 41.8 3.3 9.2 13.7

3 1.9

2 1.3

Felonies

Number Percent

13

2

100.0 15.3

3

3

23.1 23.1

3 23.1

Felony, blanket charge Felony, miscellaneous Poisoning Well Possessing EUrglary Tools Possessing Counterfeit Type

2

2

8

3

2

3

2

1

1

111ademeanors

Number Percent

14-o

62

- 100.0 44-.3

11 18 7.9 12.9

5.07

3' 2.1

4 2.8

2

28

1.4 20.0

Misdemeanor, blanket charge Misdemeanor, m1ecellaneoue

123

60

2

8

16

5

2

2

1

27

17

2

3

2

2

2

l

2

l

1

?OTAL
Per<>ent

11,744

- 2,506 1,917 1,666 2,506 1,128

100.0 21.34 16.32 14.19 21.34 9.60 -19-

518 4.41

492 4.19

}09 2.63

691 5.89

11 0.09

TABLE 2

~RIMES
CRIMINAL HOMICIDES

PERIOD BETWEEN DOCKETING AND DISPOSITION OF CASES __ _

RESULTING IN CONVICTIONS IN 29 CITY COURTS AND 57 SUPERIOR COURTS OF GEORGIA

- - January 1, 1926 - December 31, 1935



PART ONE - RUBAL

'l'otal


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Number Percent

u. 237

-

lOO.o

99 77

16 6.75

16 71 6.75 29.96

14 5.91

6 2.53

2
0.85

l
o.42

12 5.06

Involuntary Manslaughter Murder Voluntary Manslaughter

24

10

4

9

l

213

99

6

12

62

11!-

6

l

l

12

CRIMINAL ASSAULTS

NumbeI r Percent

Assault Assault and Battery Assault with Intent to Murder Assault with Intent to Rape Assault with Intent to Rob Blackmail and Extortion Defamation of Virtuous Female Hit and Run Driving Kidnapping ;.,ibel 11.ayhem Peeping Tom Pointing Pistol at Another Rape
~:~."Jt1ng at Another
Shc~tine at an Occup1ed Dwelling Stabbing ::'r~in wrecking ;'life "eeti::g

ARSCN

Number Percent

Arson Destroying House with Explosives

1,161

- 335 49 76 479 102 51 39

8 22

100.0 211.115 4.22 6.55 41.26 8. 79 4.39 3.36 0.69 1.119

Jg15
23

l
143 43
11

16 17

2
28

7 109

2~ 265

5

~ 2

10 34
l

9 22

6

5 14

2

l

_,,

4

6

l
4

l

1

l

l

l

4

2

2

63 30

20 13

8 4

1

29

2

10

3 1

l

l

29

11

1

5

4

4

1

2

l

9

2

4

2

1

110

65

2

7 26

6

4

l

l

39

19

2

15

l

13 100.0
13

8

4

l

61.54 30.77 7.69

8

4

l

BURGLARY

Number Percent

ROEBE?.Y

Number Percent

LA.qCENIES

Number Percent

Breaking, Entering and Stealing Breaking, Entering Vehicle Larceny
Larceny, 'attempted Larceny from House
Larceny from Person LBrceny of Automobile
Larceny of Farm Animals S1xple Larceny

LARCENIES AFTER TRUST

Number Percent

Embezzle:nent Larceny After Trust Removal of Uortgaged Property Sale of Mortgaged Property

!I.ISUSE OF ANOT"!EH 'S PROPEHTY

Number Percent

Killing Farm Animals Trespass
Using Auto without Owner's Consent Ueing Horse without Owner's Consent Using Horse without Owner's Consent

CHEATING AND SWINDLING

Number Percent

Cheating and Swindling Obtaining Money Under False Pretense

FORGERY

Number Percent

Forgery Operating a Slot Machine with Slugs
Pereonating Another

CRIMES AGAI!JST PUBLIC JUSTICE

Number Percent

Bribery
Embraoery
Escapee Malpractice by Public Officer Obstructing Legal Process Performance of Police Duties, illegally Perjury Resisting an Officer

' 5116

248

100.0 42.32

5.i2

45 191 7.68 32.59

35 5.97

11 1.58

12
2.05

.513

11 l.M

4.76 63

25

100.0 39.611

l
1.59

2

29

3.17 46.03

1
1.59

l
1.59

1 1. 59

1,848

728

100.0 39. 38

101 5.47

164 654 8.87 35.39

96 5.19

48 2.60

24 l.30

0.275

28 1.53

12 36
g
2
262
l
30 1,42761

5

l

6

~

17

6

6

5

2

2

3

2

2

82

8

II

110

13

10

10

3 18

14

12

l

2

12 596

2
85

140b

48325

10 71

l
35

2

'l: l 2
6

82

- 26

100.0 31.71

4 4.88

5 28 6.10 34.15

5
6.10

6 7. 32

4 4.87

4 4.87

6

2

3

l

46 19

- 15

-

8

l
3

l

15

2

3

2 l

5
1

3
1

4

11

-

3

7

1

39

100.0

24 61.54

2

4

4

5.13 10.26 10.26

7.6

1
2.56

1
2.56

20

17

l

l

19

7

2

4

4

2

203

90

100.0 44.33

12 24 35 22 . 4 5.91 11.82 17.24 10.84 1.97

3 1.411

2
1.48

1.973

8
3.94

203

90 12 24 35 22

4

3

2

3

8

116

25

100.0 21.55

4

19

53

3.45 16.38 45.69

4.315

4.315

1
0.86

l
0.86

3 2.59

46

11
14

3

la

36 15

4
l

4
l

l

2 l

3

l

2

57

27

100.0 47.37

3 10 5.26 17.55

5.2~

2
3.51

2
3.51

l

8

1. 75 14. QI~

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1. 75

52

27

3

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2

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l

3

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2

2

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TABLE 2

PERIOD BETWEEI" DOClftTING Afro DISPOSITION OF CASES RESULTING IN CONVICTIONS (CONT'D)
PART ONE - RURAL

CRIMES

CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC PEACE

Number Percent

Carrying DeRdly Weapons Operating Auto while Drunk Rioting

OFFENSES RELATED TO SEX

Number Percent

Adultery and Fornication Attempted Beastiality or Sodomy Bigamy Incest Seduction Sodomy and Beastiality

VICE CRIMES

Number Percent

Cock Fighting Gambling Lottery Maintaining a Lewd House Maintaining an Opium Joint Public Drunltenneee Public Indecency Ueing Obscene Language

OFFENSES RELATED TO PUBLIC POLICY Number Percent

Disturbing Divine Worship Receiving Stolen Property Usury Vagrancy Violotion or the Sabbath

MALICIOUS MISCHIEF

Number Percent

:ruelty to Children and Animals Firine; Woods
?:.a.11::101~ ~.~1sch1er

VIOLAT!Ot:S OF THE PROHIBITION LAW Number Percent

VICL:.T!Ol"S OF REGULATORY MEASURES Number Percent

Barbering without License Defacing Public Property Failure to Pay Occupational Tax Illegal Arrest Interfering with Laborers Peddling without License
Practicing Profession without License Receiving Unetamped Tobaccos Violation of Banking Regulations Violation of Co2mon School Laws Violation or .County Health Laws Violation of Election Laws Violation of Game Law ViolRtion of Highway Regulations Violation of Motor Carrier Lawe VialRtion of Motor Vehicle Law Violation of Professional Bondsmen Act Violation of Security Lice;Je Law Violation of Timber Law

NON-SUPPORT

Number Peroent

Abandonment Bastardy

MISCELLANEOUS CRIMES

Number Percent

Felonies

Number Peroent

Felony, blanket charge Felony, miscellaneous Poisoning Well Possessing 8.lrglary Tools Possessing Counterfeit Type

M.ledemeanore

Number Percent

Misdemeanor, blanket charge Misdemeanor, miecellaneoue

TOTAL

Percent

Total

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377

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51 100 286 5.26 l0.31 29.il-8

66 6.80

18 1.86

39 il-.02

582 323 65

201 156 20

2il18 9

75 193 20 78 5 15

39 22 5

15 3

20
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132

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6.l!~

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93

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l,6il-3

616

100.0 37.51l-

128 il-82 122

50

51

7.79 29.33 7.42 3.oil- 3.10

377 7 20
1
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15

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lil4.62

6 1.98

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129 30

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3

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66

11

5

10

22

7

1

131 13

53

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104

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7

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30

23

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3,il-63

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215

lil-

71l- 171

29

13

8

loo.o 38.32 2.il-9 13.19 30.il-8 5.17 2.32 Lil-3

5

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189

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5.27 23.il-2

3il7.17

15 3.17

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lil-

1

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2.50

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171

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88

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TABLE 2

CRIMES CRIMINAL HOMICIDES

PERIOD BETWEEN DOCKETING AND DISPOSITION OF CASES

RESQL1'-U!\)c IN GONVICTIONS IN 29 CITY COURTS AND 57 SUPERIOR COURTS OF GEORGIA

-



January 1, 1926 - December 31, 1935

PART TWO - RU-URBAN

.,

Number Percent

Total

1"1 ..
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"G'>"O'
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0

0

"'
0
.+->.!O"''
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0
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11 ~
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0 ::SC\J
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C...\J.........
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z

587

137

100.0 23.34

3.~4

58 342 9.s8 58.26

12
2.04

8
1.36

2
0.34

r.54

Involuntary Manslaughter Murder Voluntary Manslaughter

16 568

2
133

1
18

5~

6
336

1 11

2
5

2

1 8

3

2

1

CRIMINAL ASSAULTS

Number Per.cent

Assault Assault and Battery Assault with Intent to Murder Aesault with Intent to Rape Assault with Intent to Rob Blackmail and Extortion DefamRtion of Virtuous Female Hit and Run Driving Kidnapping Libel Mayhem Peeping Tom Pointing Pistol at Another Rape Shooting at Another Shooting at an Occupied Dwelling Stabbing Train Wrecking Wife Beating

A.'lSON

Number Percent

Arson Destroying House with Explosives

2,807

902

100.0 32.13

192 351 1,051 6.84 12.50 37.44

159 5.67

46 1.64

25 0.89

18 o.64

46 1.64

17 0.61

67 981 905 69

34 295 3'+7

7~
29

3
l~~

19 356 348

4
~

1
14 19

1
107

17

1

8 41

1

2
9 13 15 3 18
1

19

14

2

3

6

1

4

u

4 4

3

3
2

105

2

2

2

2

1

1

22 77 85 57 14 285

8
19 26 26 4 63

1 3
31

i
21

11
35 29

8
~

3l 108

10
6 6
17

4 3
5

2 1 3

2
1 1

6 3

1485

3
35

1
41

18

1
41

8

1

2

2

28

-

10

1

3

6

5

1

2

100.0 35.71 3.57 l0.72 21.43

17.86 3.57

7.14

27

- 10

1

2

6

5

1

2

1

-

-

-

1

BURGLARY ROBBERY

Number Percent
Number Percent

2,300

- 768

100.0 33.39

58 2.52

374 16.26

1~.00102

40 1. 74

18 0.78

12 0.52

2
0.09

16 0.70

269

- 74

2 36 137

2

8

3

100.0 27.51 0.74 13.38 50.93 0.74 2.98 1.12

2.66

LARCENIES

Number Percent

Breaking, Entering and Stealing Breaking, Entering Vehicle Larceny Larceny, attempted
Larceny from House L~r~eny from person
Larceny of Automobile Larceny of Farm Animals Simple Larceny

LARCENIES AFTER TRUST

Number Percent

Embezzlement Larceny Arter .Trust Removal of Mortgaged Property Sale of Mortgaged Property

MISUSE OF ANOTHER'S PROPERTY

Number
Percent

Killing Farm Animals Treepaee
Using Auto without Owner's Consent Using Horse without Owner's Consent

CHEATING AND SWINDLING

Number Percent

Cheating and Swindling Obtaining Money Under Fales Pretense

FORGERY

Number Percent

Forgery Operating a Slot Machine with Slugs Pereonating Another

CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE

Number Percent

Bribery Embracery Escapes Malpractice by Public Officer Obstructing Legal Process Performance of Police Duties, illegally Perjury Resisting an Officer

6,960

- 2,303

100.0 33.09

640 944 2 510 9.20 13.56 36.06

204 2.93

1.0785

51 0.73

20 0.29

195 2.80

18 0.26

98 94 28 14 586 16 435
114
5,575

24 13 16 44

1

21 16

5 23 4o

3

8

3 1

2

1643

43

2

9

43 321

5

5

4

8

2

6

208

8

99

83

26

38 1,821

4 567

7 62 749 1,937

169

6
63

3
2
40

1

1

1

18 193

18

297

- 119

100.0 4o.07

27 9.09

35 11. 79

70 23.57

17 5.72

11
3. 70

4 1.35

4 1.35

10 3.36

l~
58

2
79 25

141

27
6

11
37 15

4 6 6

2
6 1

3

3

a

30

13

3

2

7

1

2

1

280

- 123 16 4o 90

7

1

1

100.0 43.93 5.71 14.29 32.14 2.50 0.36 0.36

1

1

0.36 0.35

112
153

27 84

14

~4

52 38

15

12

2

1

938 100.0 353.5330

82 119 330 8. 74 12. 69 35.18

920 18

32l

82 117 320

2

10

416

- 149 21 36 189

100.0 35.82 5.05 8.65 45.43

365

- 134 13 22 177

49

- 14

8

14

11

2

-

1

1

270

109 28 34 71

100.0 40.37 l0.37 12.59 26.30

6

2

2

217

90 28 25 53

5

2

5

4

19 18

l

-22-

1

1

4

8

4

7

2
5
35 3.73
35
12 2.89
11 1
12 4.45
10 1 1

1
9 0.96
9
0.723
2 1
6 2.22
2 4

1

o.

7 75

7

4 0.96
4

4 1.48

3

1

0. 323

1
18 1.92
18
2
0.118
2
4 1.48
3
1

1 2
0.21
2
2
0.74
1 1

TABLE 2

AND PERlOD BETWEEN nocixE?ING DISPOSITION OF CASES RESULTING IN CONVICTIONS (CONT'D) PART TWO - RU-URBAN

CRil!ES CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC PEACE
Carrying Deadly Weapons Operating Auto while Drunk Rioting

Number Percent

.'.6

."...'.

0

o.C

Total

.+..' ..m..... "'"'

......+'..:
NO

4,126

- 1,205 448 601 l,503

100.0 29.21 10.86 14.57 3b.43

185 4..48

1.9719

34 0.82

1,801 2,232
93

550 135 267 698 71 27 15

635 302 321 761 110 52 l!I

20

11

13

44

4

1

OFFENSES RELATED TO SEX

Number Percent

l,618

178 652 111 588 32 31

6

100.0 11.00 40.30 6.86 36.34 1.98 1.92 0.37

Adultery and Fornication Attempted Beast1ality or Sodomy Bigamy Incest Seduction Sodomy and Beast1al1ty

l,527 287 7 31 18

158 642

l

8

l

g91 556 l 10

29
2

26
l

5

4

1

2

6

8

12

l

2

8

7

~

1

VICE CRIMES

Number Percent

5,518

1,610 833 829 14887 173 87 47

100.0 29.17 15.10 15.02 3 .19 3.14 1.58 0.85

Cock Fighting Gambling Lotte!')' Maintaining a Lewd House llalnta1ning an Opium Joint Public Drunkenness Public Indecency
.. Using Obscene Language

OFFENSES RELATED TO PUBLIC POLICY Number Percent

Disturbing Divine Worship Receiving Stolen Property Usury Vagranoy Violation of the Sabbath

MALICIOUS MISCHIEF

Number Percent

21 1,352
l~~

14 319

4 15'1

178' 60~

45

2!1

28 36 ' 9 90

l

l

-. 15

7 19

9

4

1

9 1

3.1a~ 129

- 1,19~ 617 598 1,110 109

56

37

37

7 10

l~
13

4

2 12

1

2,377

924 260 . 240 868 46 13

6

100.0 }8.87 l0.94 10.09 36.52 l.94 0.55 0.25

306
110

150 23

19 17

2317

16
32.

9 13

6 4

3

1,942 19

749 217 179 75~ 24

2

3

2

7

3

l

212 100.0- 37.2769

9 36 76 4.25 16.98 35.85

10
4. 72

l
o.47

Cruelty to Children and Animals. Firing Woods 118.licious Mischief

VIOLATIONS OF THE.PROHIBITION LAW VIOLATIONS OF REGULATORY MEASURES

Number Percent Number Percent

3~

7

2

4 21

3

2

1

1

171

70

6 32 54

7

1

10,894

100.0

~4~~~

1.044 9.58

1,671 15.34

4,212 38.66

604 5,55

294 2.70

152 1.40

2,423

100.0

554 22.86

335 13.83

285
11.76

~l074 ~-33

73 3.01

31 1.28

22
0.91

Barbering without License Defaci'ng Public Property Failure to Pay Occupational Tax Illegal Arrest Interfering with Laborers Peddling without License Practicir.g Profession without License ~eceivir.g Unstamped Tobaccos Violation of Banking Regulations Violation or Common School Laws Violation of County Health Laws Violation of Election Laws Violation of Game Law Violation of Highway Regulations Violation of 1iotor Carrier Laws Violation of Motor Vehicle Law Violation of Professional Bonda.men Act Violation of Security Licen&<t.J.air Violation of Timber Law

1
23 69 6 4
1 17
135
13
~
394
18 l
1,722 3
1 2

l

14

5

l

18 19

1

2

2

l

2

l

5

2

5

38

26 55

l

2
3

11

l

2

3

l 146

41 1253

14

2

9

4

2

8

l

313

208 841 49 26 11

l

2

1

l

1

NON-SUPPORT Abandonment Bastardy

Number Percent

501

100.Q

130 25.95

79 15,76

87 17.37

136 27.14

43 8.58

10 2.00

8
1.40

418
83

120
10

7~

65 104 22 32

32
11

9
1

7
l

MISCEWJ.NEOUS CRIMES

Nwaber Percenl.

913

299

100.0 32.74

39 94 419 4.27 10.29 45.s9

8

9

0.88 0.99

Felonies

Number Percent

102

12

100.0 11. 76

12 72

5

11.76 70.59 4.91

Felony, blanket charge Felony, miscellaneous Poisoning Well Possessing Burglary Toole Possessing Counterfeit Type

84

12

l 17.

3 63

5

l

9

8

ll1sdemeanors
Misdemeanor, blanket charge Misdemeanor, mlecellaneou~ TOTAL Percent

Number Percent

811

287

100.0 35.39

82 347 10.11 42. 79

26 3.21

8
0.98

9 1.11

774

74 337 24

8

8

37

8

10

2

l

- 12,644 4,785 5.984 16,571 1,697

398

loo.a 28.91 10.94 13.69 37.89 3.8!1 1.70 0.91

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18 0.44
10
8 6
0.37 6
23 o.42
13
2 3
0.13
1 2
88
0.81 7
0.29
l
5
1 0.20
1
193 o.44

"..'........
0 ><
1.2538 28 25
11
o.68
11
17 0.31
5
11 l
11
0.46
4
7
l
0.47
l
141 1.29
31 1.28
22
1.407 7 6
o.66
o.6~
2 3
1.34

0.183 3
12
0.22
11 l 6
0.25
l
5
o.a~
l
3 3 4
8 0.88
130 0.30

CRIMES CRIMINAL HOMICIDES

TABLE 2

PERIOD BETWEEN DOCKETING AND DISPOSITION OF CASES

RESl!L'.I'iW IN CONVICTIONS IN 29 CITY COURTS AND 57 SUPERIOR COURTS OF GEORGIA

-

- January 1, 1926 - December 31, 1935

PART TllREE - URBAN

Number Percent

Total

...~".. ~ ..GIA
mo
"'"'

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0

.",.0.,'.'".."','

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0 0..:1

.."'.-<
.0, .'Cc
C\10 .-i:ol

.1.,! ~
""'0
:IN
",..'.0.,

C\J
~...G..
01>!

< z

~7

- 121 215 174 261

52

23

g

6

17

lOO.o 13.go 24.52 19.84 29.76 5.93 2.62 0.91 o.6g 1.94

Involuntary Manslaughter Murder Voluntary Manslaughter

g3

16

23

20

g

3

2

4

7gg

114 197 148 240

44

20

6

6

13

6

2

3

l

CRIMINAL ASSAULTS

Number Percent

Assault Assault and Battery Assault with Intent to Murder Assault with Intent to Rape Assault with Intent to Rob Blackmail and Extortion Defamation of Virtuous Female Hit and Run Driving Kidnapping Libel
Mayhem
Peep1r.g Tom Pointing Pistol at Another Rape Shooting at Another Shooting at an occupied Dwelling Stabbing Train Wrecking Wife Beating

AR501'

Number Percent

Ar~on
Destroying :-fouEe .,:1th Explosives

6,234

- 3,459 972 792 773

loo.o 55.49 15.59 12.70 12.40

lg 2.163 1,513
110 125
21
l
1+3 18
2
15 13 30 109 211
33 1,227
2 580

9

4

3

1

lzg~

316 303

230 323

237 320

z~
7

32 3z

17 21
3

18 20
5

l

19

9

8

6

8

5

2

3

l

l

10

4

1

9

3

10 34

21g2

95 15

56

953 111

1
l~
28
6

4
~f
4 84

1

l

406

51

61

26

39

13

8

6

6

100.0 33.33 20.51 15.3g 15.39

36

-

13

5

6

6

3

-

-

3

111 l.7g
1 23 59
2 4 2
l

50 o.go
114. 17
2 2

16 0.26
2 11

l

2
5

z 1

l

l

7

6

l

3

2

1

4

2.57 10.26

1

4

6 0.10
l
3
2

17 0.27
l 11
l
l 2 l
1 2.56
l

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7
31

BURGLARY ROBBERY

Number Percent
Number Percent

4,897

2,299 860 910 . 693

100.0 46.95 17.56 18.58 14.15

1,720

804 419 256 201

100.0 46.74 24.36 14. 88 11. 69

68 1.39
o.~g

13 0.27
10 0.58

17 0.35
5 0.29

6 0.12
l
0.06

31 0.63
11 0.64

LARCE1'IES

Number Percent

Breoking, E:r.tering and Stealing Breaking, Entering Vehicle Larceny
Larceny, attempted
Larceny from House LRrceny from Person Larceny of Automobile Larceny of Farm Anl:nale Simple Larceny

LARCENIES AFTER TRUST

Number Percent

Embezzlement Larceny After Trust Removal of Mortgaged Property Sale of Mortgaged Property

;.'.IS USE OF A~: OTHER' s PROPERTY

Number Percent

Killing Farm Animals Trespass
Using Auto without Owner 1 e Consent Using Horse without Owner 1 e Consent

CHF.ATIKG AND SWINDLING

Number Percent

Cheating and Swindling Obtaining Money Under False Pretense

FORGERY

Number Percent

Forgery Operating a Slot Machine with Slugs Personat1ng Another

CRiii.ES AGAI1'ST PUBLIC JUSTICE

Number Percent

Bribery Embracery
Escapes Plalpractice by Pu\,lic Oftioer Obstructing Legal Process Performance or Police Duties, illegally Per Jury Resisting an Officer

16,218

- 11,358 1,556 1,824 1,048

100.0 70.03 9.60 11.25 6.46

346 193
5 25 843 28 2,509
12,ln

266

43

16

16

104

19

26

43

lg

1 l

l
6

1

326 12

12z

300 7

81 4

1,61+5 1+07 210 1!11

58

12

4

13

8,928 946 1,254 709

902

456 113 109 155

100.0 50.55 12.53 12.08 17.18

16u5 20

12 405
30 9

99l
3

21

17

79 131

g

5
2

29g

100.0

189 63.42

16.~

23 7. 72

9 ~l

140 0.86
3
I+
l
36
l
95 34 3. 77 I+ 29
l
4 l. 34

48 0. 30
l
l
5 9
l
31
18 2.00
l
17

53 0.33
9 43
7 0.78
7
l
0.34

5 0.03
3
2 0.22
l l

o.i~

166 1.02

l

3

'4 165

6

2

0.67 0.22

5

2

1

4

l

1.34 0.34.

79 219

56 133

11 38

4 19

2Z

2 2

l

3

l

1

1,934

1,216 266 190 165

100.0 62.88 13.75 9.82 8.53

1,908 26

- 1,209 266 181 156

7

9

9

1,074

531 204 202

86

100.0 49.44 18.99 lg.81 8.01

992

499

79

32

3

541

367

100.0 67.84

176 26 2
50 9.24

197

72

5

14

39

69

7.21 12.75

3~

12

6

5

5

l

2

l

413

327

24

12

48

l

l

3

2

l

17

7

1

4

4

53

11

13

11

12

15

7

3

5

-24-

47 2.43
47
31 2.89
29
l l
1.6~
5
4

32 l.b5
32
5 0.92
1 2 2

4 0.21
4
l
0.19
l

O. lg
3
7 0.65
7

8 0.41
7
l
13 1.21
12
l
1 0.19
l

O.lg
3

TABLE 2

PERI-OD BETWEEN DOCKETING AND DISPOSITION OF CASES RESULTING IN CONVICTIONS (CONT'D) PART THREE - URBAN

CRIMES

CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC PEACE

Number Percent

Carrying Deadly Weapons Operating Auto while Drunk Rioting

OFFENSES RELATED TO SEX

Number percent

Adultery and Fornication Attempted Beastiality or Sodomy Bigamy Incest Seduction Sodomy and Beastiality

VICE CRIMJ;:S

Number Percent

Total

1."1......
'Q "")"Q"' '"'"'

0
".0,' ..
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0
.'
0
+> m
"'"'"'"'

C\J .-< m
.i::
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':s

li-,179 100.0 li-9.32

1,213 167

41

lli-

l<+.32 1.97 O.li-8 0.17

- 2,37lil,803

599 755

m li-95 716

57 110

lli27

7 7

2

3

7

2

397

96

89

100.0 58.55 lli-.16 13.13

9 1. 33

lj.
0.59

0.7~

556

352

67

69

7

2

3

26

5

5

7

1

l

2~
8

9

5

3

l

l

4 l

2

l

1

l 1

57

2li-

18

7

s

7,611

- 3,23li- 1,452 1,696 993 148

39

20

100.0 42.49 19.08 22.2s 13.05 1.95 0.51 0.26

Cock Fighting Gambling Lottery llaintaining a Lewd House Maintaining an Opium Joint Public Drunkenness Public Indecency Using Obscene Language

OFFENSES RELATED TO PUBLIC POLICY Number Percent

Disturbing Divine Worship Receiving Stolen Property Usury Vagrancy Violation of the Sabbath

:.:J.LICIO!JS l:ISCHIEF

Number Percent

Cruelty to Children and Animals Firing Woods Malicious Y.ischief

VIOLATIO~'S OF THE PROHIBITION LAW Number Percent

VIOI...~TIONS OR RE~ULATORY MEASURES Number Percent

Ba.rber1ng witnout License
Defacing Public Property Failure to Pay Occupational Tax Illegal.Arrest Interfering with Lliborers Peddling without License Practicing Profession without License Receiving Unstamped Tobaccos Violation of Banking Regulations Violation of Common School Laws Violation of County Health Laws Violation of Election Laws Violation of Game lAw Violation of Highway Regulations Violation of Motor CB.rrler Laws Violation of Motor Vehicle Law Violation ot Professional Bondsmen Act Violation of Securlty License Law Violation of Timber Law

2,li-66 2,074
209 11
2,Gli-9 127 75

1,~t4 lli-5

li-36 706 22

li-71i-
3~~

316
2~ft

254 2
1,117

lj.

2

86~ 358

92

17

9

15

lli-

10

28

2,952

2,li-80 167

72 188

100.0 84.01 5.66 2.li-li- 6.37

62
3li-8 10
2,510 22

30

10

lli-

8

187

48

19

75

4

2

2

2

2,252

99

7

8

34 101 2

361i-

256

li-8

36

20

100.0 70.33 13.19 9.89 5.50

31 4

18

4

6

3

lj.

329

32li-

lj.lj.

30

17

2li-,Oli-7

- 9,380 3,896 5,130 li-,li-85

100.0 39.01 16.20 21.3li- 18.65

2,519

1,154 lj.lj.2 430 381

100.0 45,81 17.54 17.07 15.13

51

12

lj.

12

22

1

1

69

18 19

9 15

12

8

2

2

3

3

16 526
l
3 5 20 2li-2 18 20 1,523

10

1

1

258 119

56

l

3

3

1

l

15 168

l
li-2

l
12

14

10

3

2

2

15

l

l

l

632 2li-8 330 2li-9

9

1

3

l

73 28
l
46
10 13
l
0.28
l
756 3.lli-
62 2.46
2
15
2

26 6
l
5
7 0.24
6
l l
0.27
269 1.12
32 1.27
5
3
1 1 19 3

10
5
5 3 0.10 2
l 1
0.27
1 70 0.29
5 0.20
3
1 l

NON-SUPPORT
Abandonment Bastardy MISCELLANEOUS CRIMES
Felonies
Felony, blanket charge FelonyJ miscellaneous Poisoning Well Posseesing B.lrglary Tools Poeseesing Counterfeit Type llisdemeanors
Misdemeanor, blanket charge Misdemeanor, miscellaneous TOTAL Percent

Number Percent
Number Percent Number Percent
Number Percent

2,107

1,640 145 131 119

100.0 77.84 6.1'18 6.22 5.65

1,584 523

1,246 114 105

67

18

39li-

31

26

52

12

422

210

36

23 llj.lj.

l

100.0 li-9.76 8.53 5.45 3li-.12 o.2li-

61i-

18

16

12

12

1

100.0 28.13 25.00 18.75 18.75 1.56

9 13

i

6

l

2
5

1

l

33

l~

10

11

4

l

3

2

358

192

20

11 132

100.0 53.63 5.59 3.07 36.87

83,906

158

15

10 129

34

5

l

3

li-3,7li-3 12,35113,590 11,101 1,707

100.0 52.13 lli-.72 16.20 13.23 2.03
-25-

15 0.71
10 5
l
0.2li-
l 0.28
l 612
0.73

lO 0.47
10
lj.
0.95
lj.
6.25
lj.
2lj.lj. 0.29

m
m"., Q)
"'":"0:>;r<u
"....'o.,
4 0.05
lj. 2
0.29
l 1
g 0.11
5
3
1 0.03
1
o.i4
5 0.20
2 3
7 0.33
5
2
0.12

(\J m
""""O..>Q<)
lj.
0.05
lj.
l
0.15 1
10 0.13
l 2
7 3 0.10
2 1 l 0.27
1 20 0.08
6 0.24
1 l
1 1 6 0.29
5
1 2 O.li-7 l 1.56
l
0.28
l
182 0.22

o.4i
28 7
l
0.15 1
11 o.1li-
6 1 4 3 0.27
g 0.03
2 0.08
4 0.19
lj. l
0.24
l
0.28 1
280 0.33

TABLE 3

PERIOD BETWEEN DOCKETING AND DISPOSITION OF CASES

RESULTINQ IN AC!<UITTALS IN 29 CITY COURTS AND 57 SUPERIOR COURTS OF GEORGIA

-



January 1, 1926 - December 31, 1935

PART ONE - RURAL

CRIMES CRIMINAL HOMICIDES

Number Percent

Total

a 0

. . ....<:m ~
G"'>"O' "'"'

"0 '
.....

"~ '

"'"'

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0
r'\:>!

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"':a

C\J
.....

.<":'

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0
"':e

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s::
C\JO ri:>!

..s<",:::<'>""O"<'
0 :>!C\J
"....". .0,

""..,.' "....,
O><

<
:z;

79

loo.o-

25 31.65

12 15.19

4 17

9

9

5.06 21.52 11.39 11.39

3.so3

Involuntary Manslaughter Murder Voluntary Manslaughter

2

1

1

75

23 12

4 15

9

9

3

2

1

1

CRIMINAi. ASSAULTS

Number Percent

Assault Assault and Battery Assault with Intent to Murder Assault with Intent to Rape Assault with Intent to Rob Blackmail and Extortion Defamation of Virtuous Female Hit and Run Driving Kidnapping Libel Mayhem
Peeping Tom Pointing Pistol at Another Rape
Shooting at Another Shooting at an Occupied Dwelling Stabbing Train Wrecking Wife Beating

ARSON

Number Percent

Arson Destroying House with Explosives

4!!6

157 30 51 134 44 24 20 13 13

100.0 32.31 6.17 10.49 27.?7 9.05 4.94 4.12 2.6!! 2 67

-l

5 193 167

66
53

15
g

20 15

61 34

13 21

9 12

125

!

~

5

3

2

2

1

1

1

1

1

1

3

2

r

2

2

1

1

4172 10
2

11

3

5

22

2

3

1

7

1

i

5

1

1

1

2

1

30

14

3

5

4

2

2

5

1

3

17

loo.o

10 5s.s3

1
5.ss

l

5

5.ss 29.41

17

10

1

1

5

BURGLARY 'lOBBERY

Number Percent
Number Percent

95

24

100.0 25.26

6 6.32

1

39

1.05 41.05

9.4S9

9 9.47

5 5.26

2
2.11

21

-

7

100.0 33.33

2

9

9.52 42.s6

14.2

LARCENIES

Number Percent

Breaking, Entering and Stealing Breaking, Entering Vehicle Larceny
Larceny, attempted
Larceny from House Larceny from Person Larceny of Automobile Larceny of Farm Animals Simple Larceny

LA'lCENIES AFTER TRUST

Number Percent

Embezzlement Larceny after Trust Removal of Mortgaged Property Sale of Mortgaged Property

MISUSE OF ANOTHER'S PROPERTY

Number Percent

Killing Farm Animals Trespass
Using Auto without Owner's Consent Ua1rig Horse without Owner's Consent

CHEATING..._ANV SWINDLING

Number Percent

Cheating and Swindling Obtaining Money under False Pretenee

FORGERY

Number Percent

Forgery Operating a Slot Machine with Slugs Pereonating Another

CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE

Number Percent

Bribery
Embracery
Escapee Malpractice by Public Officer Obstructing Legal Process Performance of Police Duties, illegally Perjury Resisting an Officer

393

- 113 29 35 115 45 24 15

5 12

loo.o 2s.75 7.3e: s.91 29.26 11.45 6.11 3.s2 1.27 3.05

7

2

2

1

2

3

1

2

3

2

1

2

2

45

10

3

2

19

5

2

2

2

2

1

1

20 21 290

~
S7

24

~
25

g
64

307

2
3 17

13

5

2
3 5

61

- 25

5

1 19

5

1

5

100.0 40.9g S.19 1.64 31.15 S.20 1.64 S.20

7 30 11

2

'-

2

12

4

1

9

3

3
1

6

1

2

1

1

13

5

6

2

27

15

2

6

2

1

1

100.0 55.56

7.41 22.22 7.41

3.70

3.70

125 10

~

5

2

1

1

1

1

61

-

16

3

4 23

4

2

4

100.0 26.23 4.92 6.55 37.70 6.56 3.2s 6.56

5 8.20

61

16

3

4 23

4

2

4

5

9

-

4

100.0 44.45

7

2

2

2

1

1

1

- 11.11 ll,ll 11.11

1

1

2
22.22
2

11

-

2

2

. 100.0 15.15 lS.16

6

1

l

1

1

1

1

-26-

1

3

9.09 27.2g

1

1

1

1

1 9.09
1

1

1

9.09 9.09

1

1

TABLE 3

PERIOD BETWEEWDOcKBTING-AND DISPOSITION OF CASES RESULTING IN ACQUITTALS (CONT'D) PART ONE - RURAL

CRIMES

CRI'IES AGAINST PUBLIC PEACE

Number Percent

Carrying Deadly Weapone Operating Auto while Drunk Rioting

OFFENSES RELATED TO SEX

Number Percent

Adultery and Fornication Attempted 8eaetial1ty or Sodomy Bigamy
Ince et
Seduction Sodomy and Beaetiality

VICE CRIMES

Number Percent

Cock Fighting Gambling Lottery llaintair.ing a Lewd House
Maintaining an Opium Joint Public Drunkenneee Public Indecency Using Obscene Language

OFFENSES RELATED TO PUBLIC POLICY Number Percent

Disturbing Divine Worehip Receiving Stolen Property Ueury Vagrancy Violation of the Sabbath

Total

16S

47

100.0 27.911

103

37

43

9

22

l

32

6

100.0 lS.75

22

4

2 1
7

10 5.95
3 ~
1
3.13
1

' ;m::
.0. >s:': 0
I"':!!

10 59 5.95 35.12

4 i

40
lg

2

13

6.25 40.63

2

10

3

16 9.52
9
~
1 l

"',..., m ;::
.0. >s:': 0 "':!!
9 5.36
4 4
l 2
6.25
l 1

...."..'. m
0."1
s::
".-<':0!!
11
6.55 3 3 5
l
3.12

225

65 14 24 67 31

7

9

100.0 2S.S9 6.22 l0.67 29.7g 13.711 3.11 4.00

21

3

2

143

35

2

35

7

66

22

100.0 33.33

44

11

3

19

11

2

6

11

2

15 3 7 10.60

45
2 g
19 211.79

27
4
g
12.12

2

16

7

3

2

2

3

l

5
1
1.52

6 3 3 4.55 3

Y.ALICIOUS MISCHIEF

Number
Percent

Cruelty to Children and Animale Firing Woode Malicioue Miechief

VIOLATIONS OF THE PROHIBITION LAW Number Percent

VIOLATIO~.s OF REGULATORY MEASURES Number Percent

Barbering without License Defacing Public Property Failure to Pay Occupational Tax Illegal Arrest InterferirLg w1 th Laborers Peddling without License ?r~cticing Profession without License
Receiving Unstamped Tobaccos Violation of Banking Regulatione Violation of Common School Lawe Violation of County Health Lawe
Violation of Election Laws Violation of Game Law Violation of Highway Regulatione
Violation of Mvtor Carrier Lawe Violation of Motor Vehicle Law Violation of Profeseional Bondemen Act Violation of Security Licenee Law Violation of Timber Law

NON-SUPPORT

Number Percent

Abandonment Bae tardy

MISCELLANSOUS CRIMES

Number Percent

Felonies

Number Percent

Felony, blanket charge Felony, miscellaneous Poisoning Well Possessing Burglary Tools Poeeeeeing Counterfeit Type

Misdemeanors

Number Percent

Kiedemeanor, blanket charge Misdemeanor, miscellaneous

TOTAL

Percent

37 100.0

4

7

4

10.Sl lS.92 10.Sl

l
2.70

3 8.10

15

2

2

2

3

l

1

19

l

6

2

552

- 15S 26 3g 197 60

loo.o 2s.62 4. 71 6.ss 35.69 lo.s7

16S

71

5 20 57

7

l

1

100.0 42.26 2.911 11.90 33.93 4.17 0.60 0.59

2

2

l

l

3

3

46

2

10

1

3

19

6 17

5

3

3

211

15

100.0 53.57

3

g

1

l

l0.72 211.57 3.57 3.57

16 12

7 g

2

5

1

l

l

3

155

62 111

100.0 40.00 11.61

5 3.23

10

3

l

100.0 30.00 10.00

2

2

l

l

20.00 20.00 10.00 10.00

g

3

l

l

1

l

2

l

1

1

145

- 59 17

100.0 40.69 11.72

135 10

5~

17

2,691

1157 170

100.0 31.115 6.32
-27-

6 36 4.14 24.S2
6 31 5
217 g36
S.06 31.07

7 4.s3
6
l
261
9.70

6 4.14
6
126 4.68

4 2.76
4
104

l
3.12
1
1 0.44
l 1
1.51
l
23 4.17
l 0.59
l
3.235
5 3.45
5 51

...,..m.,
O>>Q<) 3
l 79 3
l
3.12
l
7 3.11
5
2 2
3.03
2
8
1.45 5
2.~g
2
5 3.22
5 3.45
5 66 2.45

1. 7g3 3
3 0.11

CRIMES CRIMINAL HOMICIDES

TABLE 3

PE.'!IOD BETWEEN DOCKETING AND DISPOSITioN OF CASES--

RESULTI~~ IN_ACQUITTALS IN 29 CITY COURTS AND 57 SUPERIOR COURTS OF GEORGIA

-

January l, 1~26 - December 31, 1935

PART TWO - 'Ill-URBAN

Total

..c:.i:i......
~""''
G>O
--'"'

Cl
'--"
0
+' ..
rt .,
"'"'

0
..."0'
+' ..
rt .,
"'"'

"''.c: 0 +' +' "0 r<\:>i

"''.c:
0 +' +' "0 '-O:>i

.N..... .c:
0 +'
+' "0 "':ii

.."'rt

11 ~
+' ..

+o'.c1=:

"0 ><
::i!N

NO rt ::ii

"rt'+0'

N.....
O">>".<',

<
"'

Number Percent

174

66

6

19

61

13

5

l

l

2

100.0 37.93 3.lt-5 l0.92 35.06 7.lt-7 2.87 0.58 0.57 l.15

Involuntary Manslaughter Murder Voluntary Manslaughter

13 156

d

6

It. lit-

5t

3 9

4

5

1

l

1

1

l

l

2

CRIMINAL ASSAULTS

Number Percent

Assault Assault and Battery Assault w1th Intent to Murder Assault w1th Intent to Rape Assault w1th Intent to Rob Blackma11 and Extort1on Defamat1on of V1rtuous Female H1t and Run Dr1v1ng K1dnapp1ng L1bel Mayhem Peeping Tom Pointing Pistol at Another Rape Shooting at Another Shooting at an Occupied Dwelling Stabbing Tra1n Wreaking
Wlte Beat1ng

ARS 'JN

Number
Percent

Arson Destnying House with Explos1ves

1,238

- 366

100.0 29.56

49

22

599

169

2~t

76
ll

7

3

2

11

3

l

5

2

21
a1t

9 18 12
2

95

21

lt-5

18

27

-

7

100.0 25.93

27

-

7

97 17lt- llllO

75

26

7 .84 lit-. 05 35. 51t- 6.06 2.10

3

7 13

46

88 219 27 100

lt-0 16

l~

5

8

l

2

2

1

l

2

6

1

l

l

3 3 3

9 5

u 6

l
3 5

2

l

l

l

2

20

lt-1

6

l

2

lit-

2

1

3

7

6

3

3.70 11.ll 25.93 22.22 ll.11

1

3

7

6

3

26 2.10
l 10
7
l l l 1
3
1

8 0.65
l 2
lt1

25 2.02
2 15
5
l l
1

l 0.08
l

B'JR(JLA..C..Y ROEB:1.?

Number Percent
Number Percent

297

128

100.0 43.10

64

-

27

100.0 42.19

13

35

93

It-. 38 ll. 7g 31. 31

2

It-

2lt-

3.13 6.25 37.50

12 4-.0lt-
5 7.81

1 o.31t-
l l.56

lt1.35

11 3.70
1 l.56

LA:tCE:Nii::S

Number Percent

Breaking, Entering and Stealing ?.reaking, Entering Vehicle LRr:;eny '
~ar~eny attempted
LR.r-~eny fro::n !-louse
L::t!'ceny from Person ~arcer.y of Automobile Lhr~eny of Farm Animals
S !.mp~e Larceny

LARCSNIES AFT~R TRUST

Number Percent

Embezzlement
Larceny aftel" Trust Removal of Mortgaged Property Sale Of Mortgaged Property

l"1S1JSE OF ANOTHER'S PROPERTY

Number Percent

Kill1ng Farm An1mals Treepaes Using Auto w1thout Owner's Consent Using Horse without Owner's Consent

CHEATING AND S\fINDLING

Number Percent

Cheating and Sw1ndl1ng Obtaining Money under False Pretense

FORGERY

Number Percent

Forgery Operating a Slot llach1ne with Slugs Personatlng Another

CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE

Number Percent

Bribery Embracery Escapes Malpractice by Publ1c Officer Obstructing Legal Process Performance of Police Duties, illegally Perjury
Resisting an Officer

l,109

- 280

100.0 25.25

9

2

8

2

4

2

l

87

31

9

2

45 31

l*

915

216

149

-

32

100.0 21.47

~l

3 20

40

7

16

2

70

24

100.0 34.28

86 115 lt-32

71

7.76 l0.37 38.96 6.lt-0

2 1

2 l

4

2

1

l

7 36
2

3

2

7

ll

5

l

19

l

67

96 356

62

6.ol
l 2
6

llt-

58

9. lt-O 38.93

g
4

9 33 10

1

6

llt9. lt-O
6 6 2

6

10

25

l

8.57 llt-.29 35. 71 1.43

22
f.98
2 20
6.0~
1 2 lt2 l 1.43

12 l.08
l 11
4 2.68
4

7 0.63
l
6 3 2.01
l l 1 1 l.lt-3

d~
1 2 71
3-3~
2 l 2 2 2.86

10 0.90
10 l
0.67 1

lt-0

17

29

7

l

241

-

49

100.0 20.33

239

-

47

2

-

2

47

-

15

100.0 31.95

45

15

2

l

4 14

5

6

10

l

15

27 107

6.23 11.21 44.lt-O

15

27 107

1 2.13
1

1

28

2.13 59.57

l

26

2

1
9.~4
23 2
4.26 2

l
9 3.73
9

6 2.49
6

1
It1.66
It-

l l
l o.lt-1
1

32

-

12

100.0 37.50

2

1

15

8

1

l

1

9

3

3

-28-

1

8

8

3.13 25.00 25.00

1

l

2

3

1

l

4

l

1

2

l 3.12
1

2 6.25
l l

TABLE 3

PERIOD BETWEEN DOCKETING AND DISPOSITION OF CASES RESULTING IN ACQUITTALS (CONT'D)

---

PART TWO - RU-URBAN

CRIMES

CRIMES AGAINST PUB.IC PEACE

Number Percent

Carrying Deadly Weapons Operating Auto while Drunk Rioting

OFFENSES RELATED TO SEX

Number Percent

Adultery and Fornication Attempted Beaetiality or Sodomy Bigamy Incest Seduction Sodomy and Beaetial1ty

VICE CRI'.llES

Number Percent

Cock Fighting Gambling Lottery Maintaining a Lewd House llaintaining an Opium Joint Public Drunkenness Public Indecency Using Obscene Language

OFFENSES RELATED TO PUBLIC POL!CY Number Percent

Disturbing Divine worship Receiving Stolen Property Usury Vagrancy Violation of the Sabbath

MALICIOU? MISC~IEF

Number Percent

Cruelty to Children and Animals Firing Woods Malicious Mischief

VIOLATIONS OF: THE PROHIBITION LAW Number Percent

VIOLATIOl'.S OF REGULATORY MEASURES Number Percent

Barbering without License Defacing Public Property Failure to Pay Occupational Tax Illegal Arrest Interfering with Laborers Peddling without License Practicing Profession without License Rece1v1ng Unstamped Tobaccos Violation of Banking Regulations Violation of Common School Laws Violation.of County Health Laws Violation of Election Law Violtion of Game Law Violation of Hifhway Regulations Violation of Uotor Carrier LRws Violation of Motor Vehicle Law Violation of Professional Bondsmen Act Violation of Security License Law Violtion of Timber Law

NON-SUPPORT

Number Percent

Abandonment Bastardy

MISCELLANEOUS CRIMES

Number Percent

Felonies

Number Percent

Felony, blanket charge Felony, m1aoellaneoue Poisoning Well Poeeeseing atrglary Toole Possessing Counterfeit Type

IUedemeanore

Number Percent

Misdemeanor, blanket charge Misdemeanor, miscellaneous

TOTAL

Percent

Total

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100.0 30.05

25 6.4g

31 143 s.03 37.05

31 8.03

20 5.18

g
2.07

9 2.33

205 146 35

~
12

g 16
l

21 9
1

75 51 17

21 9
1

11
9

4
l

6
1 2

67

15

5 11 21

8

100.0 22.39 7.46 16.42 31.34 11.94

6

l

s.96 1.49

53

a.2

4

7 17

7



1

2

2

1

2

5

1

5

1

l

362 100.0 26.~~

1

2

l

l

34- 135
9. 39 37 .29

9.1323

12 3.32

6
1.66

1
0.2S

26

6

7 44- 15

3

2

6

2

6

2

3

2

1

l

191 4

50

12

22

73

15

5

2

2

41

15

7

12

3

4

150

49

6 24 56

5

l

l

100.0 32.67 4.oo 16.oo 37.33 5.33 0.67 0.67

1

9

5 3.33

26

2

7 16

2

3

7

3

9 13

6

l

1

2

50

16

1

5 25

2

2

100

3 7

5

11

38

3

2

3

1

100.0 37.00 5.00 11.00 38.00 3.00 2.00 3 00

1.00

4~

20

2

18

2

1

1

51

14

1
ll 19

1 159

383

100.0 32.21

lOB 441 9.08 37.09

45

30

11

10

3.79 2.52 0.93 0.84

351

102

22 149

11

2

4

100.0 29.06

6.27 42.45

3.13 0.57

1.14

1

1

7

2

4

1

1

7

1

1

2

6

1

20

5

3

B

2

122

37

4

3

2

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l

1

5 ;o l

1 2

165

42

7

11

76

9

1

2

3

2

1

1

121

23

100.0 19.01

10 23 445. 26 19.01 36.36

4.135

7 5.79

6 4.96

1
0.83

2
1.65

89 32

19

5 16 33

4

4

5

l

2

4

5

7

11

1

3

1

2.04 147

47

5

10

67

12

100.0 31.98 3.40 6.50 45.5g 5.16

2.04

18

1

100.0 5,56

1 15

1

5.56 s3.33 5.55

14

1

1

12

1

1

2

1

l

1

1

129

46

100.0 35.66

121

42

g

4

5 3.s7
5

9 52 6.95 4-o.32

5 51

1

1

ll s.53
10
1

3
2.32
3

3 2.32
2 l

6,321

- 1,873 410 6S4 2,377 459

100.0 29.63 6.49 10.S2 37.60 7.26
-29-

180 115 41 170 12 1.82 0.65 2.69 0.19

TABLE 3

CRH!ES CRIMINAL HOl!ICIDES

PERIOD BETWEEN DOCKETING AND DISPOSITION OF CASES

RESULTING IN AC~UITTALS IN 29 CITY COURTS AND 5.7 SUPERIOR COURTS OF GEORGIA

_ .

.

January 1, 1926 ~ December 31, 1935 PAR'!' THREE - URBAN

Total

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Number Percent

100.0

61 20.00

53 17-37

54 17.70

101 33.11

20
6.56

6
1.97

6
1.97

2
o.66

2 0.66

Involuntary Manslaughter Murder Voluntary Manslaughter

26 27~

8 53

~

2 51

9~

3 15

6

1
5

2

2

l

1

2

2

CRI!HNAL ASSAULTS

Number Percent

Assault Assault and Battery Assault with Intent to Murder Assault w1th Intent to Rape Assault 1th Intent to Rob Blackmail and Extortion Defamation of Virtuous Female H1t ar.d Run Dr1v1ng K1dnapp1ng
Libel Mayhem Peeping Tom Pointing Pistol at Another Rape
Shooting at Another Shooting at an Occupied Dwelling Stabbing Train wrecking W1te Beating

ARSON

Number Percent

Arson ~estroying House with Explosives

1,976

812 357 353 344

100.0 41.09 18.08 17.86 17.41

12 885 462 47-
39 2 4 6 8
1
4 4 19 48 76 15 275

7

2

l

l

427 139 157 126

75 106 118 125

14

8

20

22

6

5

3

2

4

1

4

1

1

2

2

1

1

4

4

7

5

18

11

4

3

8

10

28

23

8

10

7

3

3

1

17Q

37

25

32

69

38

9 10

7

25

5

3

5

9

100.0 20.00 12.00 20.00 36.00

24

5

3

5

8

1

1

69 3.49
l
29 20
2 1
l
4
1
7
2 2 8.00 2

20 1.01
4 8 3
1 2 l 4.00

3

5

2

0.15 0.25 0.10

1

1

1

6

2

2

1

2 2
l

BURGLARY ROBBE.'lY

Number
Percent
Number Percent

146 157

86 122

100.0 26.119 28.91 15.84 22.47

378

123 108

79

57

100.0 32.54 211.57 20.90 15.08

4.~4
9 2. 38

5 0.92
2 0.53

l
0.16

3 0 55

Number Percent

Breaking, Entering and ~.eal1ng Breakin~, Entering Vehicle
Larceny'
Larceny, attempted Larceny from House Larceny from Person Larceny of Automobile Larceny of Farm Animals Simple Larceny

LARCENIES AFTER TRUST

Number Percent

Embezzlement Larceny after Trust Removal of Mortgaged Property Sale of Mortgaged Property

MISUSE OF ANOTHER'S PROPERTY

Number Percent

Killing Farm Animals
Trespass Using Auto without Owner's Consent Using Horse without Owner's Coneent

CHEATING AND SWINDLING

Number Percent

Cheating and Swindling Obtaining Money under False Pretense

"0RGERY

Number Percent

Forgery Operating a Slot Machine with Slugs Personating Another

CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE

Number Percent

Bribery Embracery Escapes Malpractice by Public Officer Obstructing Legal Process ' Performance of Police Duties, illegally
': RPeels'J1usr:tt 1~an Officer

1,847

967 310 256 205

100.0 52.36 16.711 13.97 11 10

48

31

11

2

3

13

3

6

2

9g
20~
26 1,446

4

1

13

25

27

20

5

2

1

l

35

63

29

37

1

10

11

876 202 187 132

190

108

21

14

20

100.0 56.84 11.05 7.37 l0.52

11

4

2

158

92

17

10

18

13

7

1

2

2

8

5

1

2

59

44

100.0 74.58

6.7~ 11.Sb

60 3.25
1
10
13 1 35
14 7.37
5 8
l

34 1.84
2
4 2.11
4

6 0.43
1
7 6 3.16 6

3 1. 58
3

5 0.27
4 1

20

15

2

l

2

39

29

2

6

2

m 100.0 39.5~5 20.9n1 9.6~0 23.1"7

175

70

37

17

40

2

1

55

4 20 10 12

100.0 7.27 36.36 18.18 21.82

44

19

6

10

11

4

l

4

2

6 3.39
5
1
2
3.64
2

1.6 3

1 0.56
1

6 10.91
6

2 1.13
2
1 ,1.82
1

35

20

7

100.0 57.14 20.00

5

1

2

12

10

2

1

4

1

2

6

4

1

6

' 2

3

5

11.57 14.29

1

2

1 1



TABLE 3

PERIOD BETWEEN DOCKETING AND DISPOSITION OF CASES RESULTING IN ACQUITTALS (CONT'D) PART THREE - URBAN

CRillES CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC PEACE

Number Percent

Carrying Deadly Weapons Operating Auto while Drunk Rioting

OFFENSES RELATED TO SEX

Number Percent

Adultery and Fornication Attempted Beaat1al1ty or Sodomy Bigamy Inceet Seduction Sodomy and Beaatial1ty

VICE CRillES

Number Percent

Cock Fighting Gambling Lottery lli'lntaining a Lewd House lla1nta1ning an Opium Joint Public Drunkenness Public Indecency Using Obscene Language

OFFENSES RELATED TO PUBLIC POLICY Number Percent

Disturbing Divine Worship Receiving Stolen Property Usury Vagrancy Violation or the Sabbath

MALICIOUS MISCHIEF

Number Percent

Cruelty to Children and Animals Firing Woods llalicious Mischler

VIOLATIONS OF THE PROHIBITION LAW Number Percent

VIOLATIONS OF REGULATORY MEASURES Number Percent

Barbering without License Defacing Public Property Failure to Pay Occupational Tax Illegal Arrest Interfering with Laborers Peddling without License Practicing Profession without License Receiving Unstamped Tobaccos Violation of Bllnk1ng Re~ulat1on Violation of Common Schoul Laws Violation of County Health Laws Violation or Election Laws Violation or Game Law Violation of Highway Regulations Violation or llotor Carrier Laws Violation of Motor Vehicle Law Violation of Professional Bondsmen Act Violation of Security License Law ViolAtion of Timber Law

NON-SUPPORT

Number Percent

Abandonment Bastardy

l!ISCELLAHOUS CRIMES

Number Percent

Felor:ies

Number Percent

Felony, blanket charge Felony, miscellaneous Poisoning Well Possessing Burglary Tools Possessing Counterfeit Type

Misdemeanors

Number Percent

Misdemeanor, blanket charge Misdemeanor, m1ecellaneous

TOTAL

Percent

Total

703

-

100.0

295 41.96

5l
0
+' m....
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132 18.78

0 a\ 0 +'.
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113 16.07

128 18.21

23 3.27

N

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0 +'

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0

a\:S

6 0.85

2 0.29

439 255

217 71

80 52

61 51

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13 10

2 4

2

9

7

l

1

85 100.0 37J~ 15.~~ 27.~~ 12.~~

1 1.18

66

30

6

19

8

4

2

1

1

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2 l.

1

6

2

2

1

5

3

2

482 100.0

10

4

2.07 0.83

m 34 l 114
10 . 24
255 100.0
1-6 91
2 145
1

65 43 22
41 6 9
160 62.74
8
~ 1
107 1

20 5~

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21 17

l

1

21

18

29

2

2

7

3

5

24 9.41

27 l0.59

12.1~

1

5

2

15

12

13

1

7

9 16

91

51 18

9

11

100.0 56.04 19.78 9.89 12.09

21

15

3

l

2

70

36 15

8

9

2,112

- 857 359 263 489

100.0 40.58 17.00 12.45 23.15

273

- 113

51

48

47

100.0 41.39 18.68 17.58 17.22

5

4

1

1

1

11

2

4

1

2

12

12

1

l

1

l

41

9

7 14

7

2

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5

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5

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153

64

36

25

24

2

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1
5
6
2 1 1.10 1
4.~
7 2.57
2 l 4

3 1.18
l 2
40 1.89
3 1.10
2
1

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1 1.10
1 6 0.29 l 0.36

.132

-

56

33

17

18

100.0 42.42 25.00 12.88 13.64

86

39

23

10

9

46

17 10

7

9

95

66

8

5 11

100.0 69.47 8.42 5.27 11.58

13

2

3

2

5

100.0 15.38 23.08 15.39 38.46

2

2

3

1

2

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2

3

1

1

4 3.03
2 2
l

2 1.52
1 1

1 0.76
1

82

64

100.0 78.04

3.6~

6 7.32

75

62

7

2

3

4

2

9,818

- 4,176 1,821 1,490 1,742

100.0 42.53 18.55 15.18 17.74
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2
2.~
l 1
359 3.66

134 1.36

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1.22 1
53 0.54

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4 0.19 1.103
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