State v. McMahon

A Superior Court jury found the defendant guilty of having committed an assault with a dangerous weapon. The sole issue being raised in this bill of exceptions is to the denial by the trial justice of -the defendant’s motion to transfer the case to the Family Court. The motion was founded on the undisputed fact that the victim of the assault was the defendant’s emancipated 18-year-old son, Edward D. McMahon, Jr.

The defendant relies on our holding first announced in State v. Perry, 103 R. I. 6, 234 A.2d 115 (1967), and re*659peated in Dutton v. Langlois, 104 R. I. 528, 247 A.2d 86 (1968), where we…