HUSBANDS AND WIVES
INTERESTING LEGAL POINT. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, September 10. That the police should not interrogate a wife regarding her husband’s alleged crime without the husband’s consent was an opinion strongly expressed by Recorder Wild in giving judgment in a case in which a Post Office official was charged with theft. The evidence showed that the official’s wife was arrested for shop-lifting, and was found to possess a number of postal notes. When questioned as to where she had got them she confessed that they had been stolen by her husband, who later acquiesced in her confession. Although he sentenced the husband to a year’s imprisonment, the Recorder declared that the interrogation of wives without their husband’s consent was absolutely contrary to law, and officialdom should be taught this. It was more important that the confidential relationship between husband and wife should be retained than that crime should be detected.
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Southland Times, Issue 19347, 12 September 1924, Page 5
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