Commonwealth v. Bowes

Opinion by

Arnold, J.,

The defendant was convicted on separate indictments charging, respectively, sodomy 1 and assault and battery with intent to ravish. He filed motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment, which were refused, and received identical concurrent sentences. These appeals followed.

Both offenses were committed upon a little girl aged six and one-half years, who was described by the trial judge as “very attractive” and “of unusual [mental] capacity for her age.” The perversion committed by the defendant was cunnilingus, 2 in which, of course, this little victim was the pathic.…