State v. Clark

The defendant, after a jury trial in the Superior Court, stands convicted of an indictment charging him with rape. He is before us prosecuting a bill of exceptions in which he -challenges (1) the denial of his request to inspect the grand jury’s minutes; (2) the overruling of his objection to a question asked of a witness for the prosecution; and (3) the composition of the petit jury.

At the time of trial the prosecutrix, whom we shall call Kathy, was a student at a nearby college. She lived in an off-campus second floor apartment. In the late afternoon of July 9, 1969, she had cleaned up the…