The Criminal Law Journal of India Journal November 30 1907

If a receivership is the best aid which the law can give to the creditors of a bankrupt is it a very far stretch of analogies to believe that imprisonment of a criminal corporation amounting to complete governmental 'control temporarily would be the best guard and protection in the power of the government to be granted to law-abiding citizens? [...] The wounds had not entirely disappeared at the time of the trial in the circuit court which occurred in the middle of the following October and were exhibited to the jury. [...] The parent is the sole judge of the necessity for the exercise of disciplinary right and of the nature of the correction to be given and the mere fact that a castigation he gives his child may appear to others to be unnecessarily harsh or severe does not make of his conduct a subject of judicial cognizance. [...] The welfare of the child is the principal ground on which the parental right to chastise him is founded and where the punishment inflicted is so excessive and cruel as to show beyond a reasonable doubt that the parent was not acting in good faith for the benefit of the child but to satisfy his own evil passion lie no longer is to be considered as a judge administering the law of the houshol [...] It will be observed that the "good faith " of the parent with reference to the welfare of the child as contradistinguished from the gratification of a revengeful nature or an uncontrollable temper is the criterion by which to determine the lawfulness or illegality of the punishment inflicted upon the child.