Commonwealth v. Taschetta

The indictment charges that the defendant on November 7, 1923, fraudulently and deceitfully enticed and took away from her father’s house one Josephine Toscana, an unmarried woman of chaste life, for the purpose of unlawful sexual intercourse with her.

The defendant’s exceptions to the exclusion of evidence must be overruled. It appeared that twelve days after the acts complained of, Josephine Toscana went to the house of one Sam Milli and remained there more than two weeks. The defendant offered to show that this house, on or about November 22,1923, had the reputation of being a house of ill…