OPINION
KELLEHER, Justice.
On November 14, 1975, the grand jury for Providence and Bristol Counties returned a three-count indictment charging the defendant, Stephen R. Gioielli, with rape, sodomy (fellation), and extortion. Later, in April 1978, a Superior Court jury acquitted him of extortion but returned guilty verdicts on the rape and sodomy counts. Before us at oral argument,
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