Commonwealth v. Traynor

The defendant, appealing from convictions of rape of a child under sixteen years of age, indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of fourteen, and indecent assault and battery on a person fourteen years of age or over, argues that the evidence did not support the charge of indecent assault on a child under fourteen and that the judge erred in admitting, as fresh complaints, out-of-court statements by the victim that were too stale for admission under that doctrine.

*528Sufficiency of evidence. The first point — the asserted lack of evidence that the complainant was under fourteen at…