State v. Gray

NICHOLS, Justice.

This appeal raises an unusual question as to the sufficiency of a 42-count indictment, returned by a grand jury in Cumberland County, which indictment in singularly abbreviated fashion charged the Defendant, Wayne E. Gray, with unlawful sexual contact, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 255(1)(C) (Supp.1978). These Class C crimes, allegedly involving an eleven-year-old step-child, were alleged to have occurred on 42 successive dates in the fall of 1977, shortly after the Defendant had married the child’s mother and moved into the family’s South Portland home.

At a January, 1979, trial in…