Commonwealth v. Johnson

The defendant, Paul Johnson, appeals from convictions after a jury-waived trial in the Superior Court of three counts of indecent assault and battery on a child, G. L. c. 265, § 13B, arising out of his molestation of his ten year old niece. Concluding that the judge could believe the victim's testimony and that the prosecutor did not misstate the victim's grandmother's testimony, we affirm.

1. Sufficiency of the evidence. When reviewing the denial of a motion for a required finding of not guilty, "we consider the evidence introduced at trial in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, and…