Killen v Police - [1965] NZLR 481

Criminal law — Police offences — Being found on property without lawful excuse — Inquiry agent employed by wife to obtain evidence against husband — Forcing entry into husband's house on wife's instructions — Wife having no key to property and never having lived there — Whether entitled to authorise inquiry agent to enter — Whether such entry under colour of right or with lawful excuse — Police Offences Act 1927, s. 54.

Husband and wife — Parties living apart — Whether wife has right of entry to home occupied by husband — Whether she can delegate any such right to unaccompanied stranger or private inquiry agent.