IRELAND, J.
A Superior Court judge has posed questions for our determination, asking whether the Superior Court has jurisdiction to accept a defendant's guilty pleas to two charges of the lesser included offense of rape and abuse of a minor, G. L. c. 265, § 23, and to impose sentence thereon, where the defendant's case was transferred from the Juvenile Court to the Superior Court only on the greater and more serious offense of two indictments charging forcible...
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