Section 57 - Act to which a person is compelled by threats.

Except culpable homicide and offences against the State punishable with death, no act is an offence which is done by a person who is compelled to do it by threats which at the time of doing it reasonably cause the apprehension that instant death to that person will otherwise be the consequence:

Provided that the person doing the act did hot, of his own accord or from apprehension of harm to himself short of instant death, place himself in the situation by which he became subject to that compulsion.