Biting Ruled Self-Defense
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MANAMA, Bahrain — A court has declared the innocence of a man who bit his mother-in-law, newspapers in this Persian Gulf nation reported Wednesday. The court accepted his plea that he bit her in self-defense when she tried to keep him from moving his furniture out of her house because she did not want her daughter to leave with him.
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