FATAL FIGHTS
LAW DEFINED BY SIR ERNEST WILD. Defining the law on “Death by Fighting,” at the Old Bailey, the Recorder (Sir Ernest Wild) said that if two men had a quarrelsome fight without any idea of serious consequences and death resulted, the killing was at least manslaughter. The only way that the charge could be reduced was when a man, in pure self-defence, struck without undue violence and killed another. If a man was attacked, the law did not require him to wait until he was hit.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11411, 6 January 1923, Page 12
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88FATAL FIGHTS New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11411, 6 January 1923, Page 12
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