Commonwealth v. Haynes

On his appeal from convictions by a jury on indictments charging him with forcible rape of a child and indecent assault and battery on a child under fourteen, the defendant argues that the trial judge erred in excluding evidence *193of the victim’s prior false allegation of rape and, with respect to the indictment charging forcible rape, in denying his motion for a required finding of not guilty, and in instructing the jury.1 We affirm the convictions.

1. The evidence. According to the testimony of Rebekah (the mother of the victims, Joyce and James2), she and her children were living together in…