Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court July 27, 1949 (Commonwealth v. Blondin)

Qua, C.J.

These six cases all grow out of the separate indictment and conviction of each of the three defendants of the crimes of rape and of abuse of a female child under sixteen years of age. Each of the three indictments charged the two crimes in separate counts. The extreme penalty for each crime is life imprisonment. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 265, §§ 22, 23.