SHOULD A WIFE TELL.
JUDGE'S PROTEST. LONDON, September 10. Criticising-the action of the post-office in obtaining a statement from a wife before prosecuting her husband, Sir Ernest Wild, Recorder of London, said emphatically:— "The law of England says that a wife cannot be called to give evidence against her husband without his consent, except in cases where she lias been injjured by him. "The post office must be taught that it is only a branch of the public service, and has no rights not common to other prosecutors." The case was one in which Samuel Warren was charged with the theft of letters. The wife was arrested on a shoplifting charge, and when interrogated in connection with postal orders, made a statement implicating her husband. Warren was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 224, 20 September 1924, Page 7
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