State v. Samson

DUFRESNE, Active Retired Justice. 1

’Twas Christmas in 1974; the place, the little hamlet of Chisholm, in the Town of Jay. Henri (the defendant Henri C. Samson, Sr.) was visiting that evening the parents of Mary Ann, a ten year old lassie who had a reading problem. Henri, who had befriended the family and was a frequent visitor at the home, was accompanied on this occasion by Mary Ann’s great aunt who was living in with Henri, who had separated from his second wife about a year previously. The two Wright boys, in the age range of Mary Ann and her younger sister, were there with their parents,…