R v Erutoe - [1990] 2 NZLR 28

Criminal law — Defences — Provocation — Murder — Crown alleged three separate attacks upon victim, the third involving blows to her head resulting in her death — Judge refused to allow defence of provocation to go to the jury — Whether such a defence should lightly be taken away from the jury — Whether there was sufficient causative evidence for the defence of provocation to be left for the jury — Crimes Act 1961, s 169.