By applying the Grudger case, it is evident that Fuller agrees with abolishing retrospective law. Fuller recorded this case as a German woman was prosecuted for denouncing her husband to the authorities in accordance with the anti-sedition laws of 1934 & 1938 right after the war. The husband was prosecuted and convicted of slandering the Fuehrer, which carried the death penalty. Despite being sentenced to death, the husband was not executed instead was sent as a soldier to the Eastern front where he survived the war and on his return instituted proceedings against his wife. The wife later argued that she had not committed a crime because the court had sentenced her husband in accordance with the law of the time. However, the wife was later
