Section 32: Except murder, and offences against the State punishable with death, nothing is an
person is offence which is done by a person who is compelled to do it by threats, which, at the time of
compelled by doing it, reasonably cause the apprehension that instant death to that person will otherwise
threats.
be the consequence:
Provided that the person doing the act did not of his own accord, or from a reasonable
apprehension of harm to himself short of instant death, place himself in the situation by
which he became subject to such constraint.