State v. Nordstrom

The defendant was convicted by a superior court jury of committing an indecent assault upon a child under the age of 13 in violation of G. L. 1956, §11-37-6. The trial justice denied the defendant’s motion for a new trial and sentenced him to serve 30 months in the adult correctional institutions. The case is before us on several exceptions taken by the defendant to certain evidentiary rulings during the trial and to the denial of his motion for a new trial.

The child involved in the alleged assault was a five-and-one-half-year-old girl whom for the purposes of this decision we shall call…