The decisions were categorized as follows: Aborigines as subjects of white man's criminal justice; Aborigines as subjects in need of protection or welfare; equality of black and white legal treatment; judicial awareness of cultural differences; supervision of magistrates by superior courts; Aborigines and alcohol, drunkenness, and drink-related crime; aboriginal testimony; interrogation of or confessions by Aborigines; legal defenses; trial punishment as a mitigating factor in determining penalties for offenses against white man's law; principles and objects of sentencing; and the effect of imprisonment. Examination of the judgments cited suggests Aborigines as 'not quite civilized.' Judicial self-denial has been preferred to judicial innovation except in procedural matters, and Aborigines continue to undergo the lottery of judicial bias.