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| Series No. | 122 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Series Title | FILES - CRIMINAL INDICTMENT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Start Date | 1 Jan 1830 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Series Description | In order to deal with criminal offences Captain Stirling created the appointments of Justices of the Peace on 9 December 1829 under the 1535 Act Hen. VIII, excluding the "caution clause". A further Proclamation was made on 20 January 1830 appointing Magistracy to deal with the establishment of Civil and Criminal Law and Law Courts through the Petty and Quarter Sessions. In April 1830 the Magistrates drew up rules relating to juries approved in the first sitting of Quarter sessions of July 1830.
The early court of Quarter Sessions were held in Fremantle until the Court house was built in Perth in 1837. With the establishment of the Supreme Court in 1861, criminal matters were transferred to the Supreme Court. A Justice Act, No. 14 of 1902, was created to establish a "Code of Criminal Law". This Code was repealed and re-enacted with amendments between 1902-1913 by Act No. 28 of 1913. To identify case files, it is necessary to consult the Criminal Record Books (Record Series 49) held by the State Records Office. Documentation for each Court Session is chronologically arranged and typically contains; - Judges Calendar (includes several files); - Criminal Sittings Calendar (day of particular file); - Lock-up report (the names of those prisoners included in the Sittings referred to in the Judges Calendar and individual case files). Case files typically contain: - Jury panel; - Inquest report; - Notice of Sittings to defendant; - *Deposition of Witnesses; - Statement of accused; - Items used as exhibits in court. The first consignment of files (consignment 3472) are cases heard before the Court of Quarter Sessions 1830-1861. The second consignment (consignment 3473) includes files from the Supreme Court. The files are arranged according to the sitting of the court. The case file listings give a control number for each sitting, with case numbers, for that sitting. Where a case file is not held by the State Records Office this is indicated on the listing by a semi-colon between the numbers. Where a case has not been registered it is shown on the case file listing. Other consignments contain the files for various country sittings. As above, the names, date of sittings and sometimes the case number are found in the criminal registers (Record Series 49). One consignment contains only criminal calendars, though these may be held with case files as well (e.g. in Cons 3473). One consignment contains nolle prosequi files which are cases where the Crown has chosen not to proceed with the indictment, due to insufficient evidence. Nolle prosequis may also be held with depositions or in any of the other consignments. Nolle prosequis should also be checked in the criminal registers (Record Series 49). * Deposition = statement of witnesses, probably taken by police at initiation of proceedings. To access depositions (unregistered) consult index to depositions (Record Series 260) 1849-1878, and consignment listings for this series for later depositions. For criminal indictment files after 1973 when a number on year system was used instead of case numbers, see Record Series 864. |
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| Original Format | Files | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| View Image of typical record in this series | Sorry no digital copy is available for this record series | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arrangement | Numerical | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Copies | Microfilm copies of cases (Cons 3472, part Cons 3473) are available at the State Records Office of Western Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Series Access Status | Restricted access - 75 years | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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