Commonwealth v. Mamay

A jury convicted the defendant on four indictments charging indecent assault and battery and one indictment charging rape.1 The defendant appealed. We transferred the case to this court on our own motion, and we now affirm.

On December 4, 1984, a Middlesex County grand jury returned nine indictments against the defendant. After pleading not guilty to all the offenses charged, the defendant filed a motion for relief from prejudicial joinder. The Commonwealth moved for joinder of six of the indictments which it claimed were related. Each alleged an indecent assault and battery or rape by the…