State v. Brown

The respondent was indicted for a violation of the provisions of R. S. 1944, Chap. 121, Sec. 6, in that, being more than twenty-one years of age, he took indecent liberties with the sexual parts or organs of one John N. McAuley, Jr., a male child under the age of sixteen years. On a trial before a jury in the Superior Court he was convicted, and the case is before us on an appeal from a denial by the presiding justice of his motion for a new trial and on exceptions. It is unnecessary to consider the appeal, for the exceptions must be sustained.

The exceptions are to the overruling by the…