Commonwealth v. Piccerillo

The defendant was tried and convicted upon an indictment which charged that on May 28, 1924, at Lawrence in the county of Essex he made an assault upon Cecil Desrocher, a female child under the age of sixteen years, with intent unlawfully and carnally to know and abuse her, and that he did so unlawfully and carnally know and abuse her. The case is before this court upon exceptions to the admission and exclusion of evidence, and to the refusal of the trial judge to give certain instructions.

*489Cecil Desrocher, called as a witness by the Commonwealth, testified in substance that" she was thirteen…