to “capital crimes.” Id. at 922-23. ¶ 75. After the death penalty was reinstated, this Court was again asked to examine the meaning of “capital offenses” in Ex parte Dennis, 834 So.2d 369, 372 (Miss.1976). Judge Mills wrote: [I]n Ex Parte Dennis, the Mississippi Supreme Court clarified its holding in Hudson and reiterated the “historic definition of a capital case as one permitting the death penalty.” 334 So.2d 369, 372 (Miss.1976). The Dennis Court also interpreted Miss.Code Ann. § 1-3-4 in light of the Mississippi Constitution, reasoning that, while, the legislature could define “capital” by statute as carrying the penalty of death or life imprisonment, this statutory definition did not change the meaning of the word as it was used in § 29 of the State Constitution. Id. at 372-73 (<HOLDING>). Finally, the Dennis Court characterized the
holding that escape driver with no prior knowledge that robbery would be armed is aider and abettor of aimed bank robbery if he knowingly and willfully joins in the escape phase of an armed bank robbery knowing that an accomplice has a gun holding that armed robbery suspect was entitled to bail hearing even though armed robbery was considered capital offense under mississippi law because maximum sentence was life imprisonment holding that violence is synonymous with force in affirming armed robbery conviction holding that a conviction for florida armed robbery is a crime of violence under the armed career criminal act holding that the defendants sentence for robbery was not inappropriate