State v. Babbitt

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

In this criminal action, a Superior Court jury returned guilty verdicts against the defendant, John Francis Babbitt, Jr. (Babbitt), on nine of the eleven counts in an indictment reported by a grand jury on January 11, 1980. The indictment charged Babbitt with committing various sexual offenses between August of 1977 and June of 1979. Specifically, the offenses included three counts of “rape,” in violation of G.L. 1956 (1969 Reenactment) § 11-37-1; six counts of committing the “abominable and detestable crime against nature,” in violation of § 11-10-1; and two counts…