Commonwealth v. Martineau

Following a jury trial in the Superior Court, the defendant was convicted of assault with intent to rape and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon. The charges arose from an incident in which the defendant attempted forcibly to insert a small glass bottle into his wife's vagina, breaking the bottle and cutting his wife's inner thighs in the process. After the defendant's motion for a new trial was denied by the trial judge, that order, and the judgments, were affirmed by a different panel of this court in an unpublished decision issued pursuant to our rule 1:28. See Commonwealth…