State v. Biddison

Respondent had been accused by indictment of having taken indecent liberties with a male child of the age of 13 years. Respondent was tried by a jury whose verdict was guilty. Respondent here prosecutes exceptions to rulings by the presiding Justice who at two junctures during trial denied to Respondent’s counsel leave to protract the cross-examination of the complaining State witness concerning the latter’s credibility and mendacity and who upon the close of all the evidence denied Respondent’s motion for a directed verdict of not guilty.

The statutory text is pertinently as follows:

“Whoever,…