THE CASE OF MINNIE DEAN,

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10404, 5 July 1895, Page 3

THE CASE OF MINNIE DEAN,

Mr A, C. Hanlon, counsel for Minnie Dean, who was sentenced to death at tbe Invereargill criminal sittings, has forwarded the following application for leave to move the Appeal Court to the Attorney-general:—■

UEGINA 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 prisoner Minnie Dean before his Honor Mr Justice Williams for the 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 her possession another child named Eva Hornsby, and that that child was murdered, the object of the evidence being ts show that the death of Dorothy 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 me, but his Honor overruled the objection and admitted it. I then asked his Honor to reserve thy question under section 412^3) of "The Criminal Code Act 1893. This bis Honor refused to do, but took a note of the objection, and this application is now made under sectiou 413 (I) of the code. Dated at Dunedin this 3rd day of July 1895. Alf. C. Haklon, ■■■ ' ■ Counsel for the prisoner. To the Attorney-general of the Colony of New Zealand.