STATE v. ROY


385 A.2d 795 (1978)

STATE of Maine v. Percy ROY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

May 3, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael D. Seitzinger (orally), Asst. Atty. Gen., Augusta, John E. Welch, Dist. Atty., Houlton, for plaintiff.

Jordan & Goodridge by Donald Goodridge (orally), Houlton, for defendant.

Before DUFRESNE, C. J., and POMEROY, WERNICK ARCHIBALD, DELAHANTY and GODFREY, JJ.


GODFREY, Justice.

In September, 1976, appellant Percy Roy was tried and convicted of the crime of taking indecent liberties in violation of former 17 M.R.S.A. § 1951 (1964). The State's evidence tended to prove that he took indecent liberties with the fifteen-and-a-half-year-old daughter of a woman he had been living with for several years. Appellant took the stand and denied the charge, testifying that there was animosity between himself and the child that grew...

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