THE CASE OF MINNIE DEAN.

Otago Witness, Volume 11, Issue 2159, 11 July 1895, Page 11

THE CASE OF MINNIE DEAN.

Mr A. C. Hanlon, counsel for Minnie Dean, who was sentenced to death at the Invercargill criminal sittings, has forwarded the following application for leave to move the Appeal Court to the Attorney-general : — B.EGINA V. MINNIR DEAN. Application is heroby made for leave in writing to move the Court of Appeal of Now 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 evidonce hereinafter referred to wbb 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 ta show that the death of Dorothy Edi'h 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 the question .. under section 412 (3) of "The Criminal Code Act 1893." This his Honor 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 Now Zealand. The Oamaru Mail's special at Wellington stales that the petition for the commutation of the death sentence passed on Mrs Dean cannot; ' be considered until the Appeal Court has dispoßed of the law points raised by her counsel. '■ The member for Invercargill thinks that a special sitting of the court should be held to avoid a delay of four months. -