Commonwealth v. O'CONNOR

On February 3, 1988, a Middlesex County jury found the defendant, Richard F. O’Connor, guilty of assault and battery on the fourteen year old daughter of his girl friend. He was living with both at the time. The defendant appeals, 1 asserting the judge committed reversible error by (1) refusing a belated oral request to instruct the jury on the privilege of a parent or one in loco parentis to use reasonable means to discipline a child; (2) admitting in evidence the victim’s mother’s testimony of her daughter’s account of the defendant’s attack on her; (3) limiting cross-examination of the…