Well that entirely depends upon whether she smacked him over the head with a frying pan first doesn't it. Laws to do with abuse in the home are predisposed to protect the female. I have read many cases of violence against husbands where if they retaliate , even with a slap, they end up getting arrested and/or have their children taken away. Some women abuse their husbands for this precise reason. I don't imagine that this was the circumstance here, but its a possibility, and given that noone here has any insight I think its a bit soon to take final judgement, no?