Commonwealth v. Jordan

Opinion bt

Baldrige, J.,

The defendant was convicted on two bills of indictment charging statutory rape upon two sisters, Elizabeth Walker, who became 16 years of age on June 14, 1943, and Annette Walker, who was 14 at the time of the alleged assaults.

The defendant lived with the mother of these two girls in a small five room house and was the father of two of her younger children. The household consisted, in addition to the defendant, of those two children, Elizabeth, Annette, their mother and the maternal grandmother.

Elizabeth testified that the defendant had intercourse with her in their…