WILLIAMSON, Chief Justice.
The defendant was convicted on two indictments charging sodomy. R.S. c. 134, § 3. The State's evidence was directed in each indictment to an act of fellatio with the defendant's adopted son, aged 17, on a given date in June 1963.
The case is before us on exceptions to the admission in evidence of the defendant's letter set forth below on the ground of irrelevancy and prejudice. The letter, or what we may call the "suicide note...
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