HUSBAND AND WIFE.
DOCTRINE OF COERCION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received June 3, '11.5 a.m.) LONDON, June 2. The oommittte of jurists appointed to consider tho responsibility of a wife for crimes committed under the coercion of a husband recommends the abolition of the whole doctrine of coercion by a husband as a defence for a wife, thus leaving her on the same footing as other people, and free to establish a* defence of any kind or to urge coercion in mitigation of punishment. The committee investigated South African, Queensland and New Zealand statutes on the subject.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16750, 3 June 1922, Page 10
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