Commonwealth v. Regan

Indictment for rape. At the trial in the superior court, in Suffolk, before Putnam, J., Julia O’Shae, the woman upon whose person the act was committed, testified as a witness for the Commonwealth ; and was asked, in cross-examination, whether. she ever had sexual intercourse with any other man than the defendant, and whether, at a time specified in the question as the time when she lived with the Widow Wadman, she did not declare that she was pregnant and name two persons “ as having been instrumental ” in making her so. The defendant’s counsel stated that he proposed to show, by this…