HUSBAND AND WIFE.
DOCTBINE OF COERCION. (By Cable—Press A«oci*tioii—Copjrigil) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) ' LONDON, June 2. The committee of jurists, appointed to consider the responsibility of a wife ■for crimes under the coercion .of her husband, recommends the abolition of the whole doctrine of coercion by the husband as a defence for a wife, leaving her on the same footing as other .people, but free to establish any , defence of the kind or urge coercion in tion of punishment. The committee'investigated the South African, Queensland, and New Zealand Statutes on the subject. [The legal theory that the wife is not responsible with her husband for a crime committed by them was ventilated in the much-discussed telegraphic betting case, in which Captain Peel was convicted, and his wife, who was equally guilty, was acquitted under the doctrine of coercion. As the result of this case, the doctrine was challenged and subjected to investigation as reported in the cab to message.].
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17472, 5 June 1922, Page 9
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