The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[1946] AC 588
[HOUSE OF LORDS.]
HOLMES APPELLANT AND DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS RESPONDENT.
1946 May 6,
7,
8,
9,
10;
July 4.
July 4.
VISCOUNT SIMON, LORD MACMILLAN, LORD PORTER, LORD SIMONDS and LORD DU PARCQ.
Criminal law
— Murder
— Provocation
— Wife's confession of adultery
— Not sufficient provocation to reduce killing from murder to manslaughter.