THE CASE OF MINNIE DEAN.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9149, 6 July 1895, Page 9

THE CASE OF MINNIE DEAN.

■» Mr A. C. Hanlon, counsel for Minnie forwarded the following application to the Attorney-General:— " REGINA V MINNIE DEAN. " Application is hereby made for leave in writing to move the Court of Appeal of New Zealand for leave to appeal herein, on the ground that upon the trial of the prisouer Minnie Dean before his Honour Mr Justice VV illiams for tbe murder of a child named Dorothy Edith Carter, the evidence hereinafter referred to was improperly admitted.

"At the trial the learned counsel for the Crown tendered evidence to the effect that the prisoner received into htr possession another child named Eva Hornsby, and that that child was murdered, the object of the evidence being to show that the death of Doiothy Edith Carter was not accidental. " Learned counsel, with the same object, also tendered evidence in regard to the death of the child whose skeleton was found in the garden at the prisoner's residence. " This evidence was objected to by mc, but his Honour overruled the objection and admitted it. " I then asked his Honour to reserve the question under sectiou 412 (3) of the Criminal Code Act 1893. This his Honour refused to do, but took a note of the objection, and this application is now made under section 413 (1) of the code. " Dated at Dunedin this 3rd day of July, 1895. "Alp. C. Hanlon, •* Counsel for the prisoner. "To the Attorney-General of the Colony of New Zealand."