State v. Malouin

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

A Superior Court jury returned guilty verdicts against the defendant, Joseph L. Malouin (Malouin), on three of the four counts in an indictment that charged him with sexually assaulting a girl who at the time of the assault was less than thirteen years of age. Hereafter we will, for the purposes of anonymity, refer to the victim as “Ann.” The sole issue presented to us relates to the trial justice’s charge to the jury.

Before considering the merits of Mal-ouin’s appeal, we would first point out that the General Assembly at its January 1979 session, with its enactment…