Commonwealth v. Brattman

After a jury trial, the defendant was convicted on an indictment charging assault with intent to commit rape and was acquitted on an indictment charging kidnapping. The defendant, who appeared pro se both in the trial court and before this court, claims error in the denial of his motion for a required finding of not guilty, 1 and in a number of evidentiary rulings. He also claims prosecu torial misconduct. Although there was no error in the denial of the defendant’s motion for a required finding of not guilty, we conclude that there is a substantial danger that the jury were misled by an…