Parker v. Couture
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass for an indecent assault and battery. Plea, tbe general issue. Trial by .jury at tlie April term, 1890, Taft, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for tbe defendant. The plaintiff excepts. Tbe case appears in tbe opinion. Proof of tbe former conviction of an assault and battery upon tbe sister was admissible. It rebutted defendant’s claim that be was in bis own bouse tbe entire day. 1 G-reenl. Ev. 604 and note 1.
1Opinion of the Court
Tbe opinion of tbe court was delivered by
START, J.
Tbe plaintiff’s evidence tended to sliow tliat sbe was eight years of age; that on tbe 24tb day of December, 1888, she and her sister, Josephine, were in tbe kitchen at tlieir *450home; that their aged grandmother was in an adjoining room; that the defendant came into the kitchen under a pretence of going into the cellar to use a grindstone. At this stage of the evidence the plaintiff offered to show, that soon after the defendant so entered into the kitchen, he closed the door leading into the adjoining room, and then made an indecent assault…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Alexander ex rel. Alexander v. BlodgettSupreme Court of Vermont · 1872
3Cited by3 opinions
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- Russ v. GoodSupreme Court of Vermont · 1916
- Wilson v. SmithSupreme Court of Vermont · 1984