Commonwealth v. Botticelli

The defendant appeals from his conviction by a Superior Court jury in April, 1989,1 of assault and battery.2 We affirm the conviction.

1. Background. The victim testified essentially as follows. In the early morning hours of September 18, 1985, she and the defendant, whom she recalled having met once less than a year before, left a lounge in Chelsea. She wanted to go to a store to buy some personal items and the defendant offered her a ride in his car, a two door Cadillac Eldorado, light blue with a white roof. When he took a route away from a nearby store, she asked him why he was not…