Dennis v. State

Minnie Dennis was convicted for the homicide of her husband for murder in the second degree with a punishment fixed at 15 years in the State prison.

On appeal the principal questions raised by her assignments of error are: (1) That the evidence preponderates against the judgment, and (2.) that the Trial Court erred in admitting evidence of a subsequent autopsy on the body of the deceased.

Briefly stated, the theory of the State is that Minnie Dennis drove out to a tobacco field about 2:00 o’colck in the afternoon where her husband was working with three other men, and that after some discussion…