Coleman v. State

Moylan, j.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

As the species homo sapiens slowly evolved from the baser life forms, both a congregating into a family group and a division of labor therein became saliently characteristic. ■ Man was the hunter and the warrior; Woman, the keeper of the hearth and the rocker of the cradle. Even latter-day refinements were little more than variations upon this primordial theme. An increasingly organized society fashioned customs and then conventions and then laws to enforce the obligations implicit in this division. In the post-World War II enlightenment, however,…