JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court will consider an appeal in the case of a woman convicted of killing her husband with hot cooking oil.
Edna Mae Sanders was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in the 2008 death of Sherman Sanders. Sherman Sanders died about a week after he was burned at the couple's Diamondhead home in 2006.
Sanders' life sentence was overturned in March by the state Court of Appeals. The Mississippi Attorney General's office petitioned the Supreme Court to hear an appeal of that decision.
The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear the appeal.
In court documents, Sanders claimed the trial judge excluded evidence of her allegations of her husband's violent history and character.
Prosecutors said there are no records of Edna Sanders reporting prior allegations of abuse. They said Sanders poured the hot oil on her 53-year-old husband while he was sleeping at their home on July 27, 2006.
The Appeals Court said in its ruling that Sanders' state of mind during the attack, and the grounds for her reasonable apprehension that she and her children were in serious imminent danger were evidence that the jury should have been allowed to hear.
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