The spring sitting of the Dukes County superior court begins next week, with a criminal trial for a Vineyard Haven man charged with rape on the docket.

The Hon. Cornelius J. Moriarty and Hon. Mitchell H. Kaplan will preside over the session, which begins April 3 as a grand jury convenes.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday for the criminal trial of Carlos J. Stevenson of Vineyard Haven. Mr. Stevenson, 50, was indicted in 2014 on charges dating to 2003 of rape of a child with force and five counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14.

In an unusual sequence of events, Mr. Stevenson’s indictment was thrown out in 2015 by Judge Moriarty, who said that prosecutors had relied solely on the testimony on the investigating Tisbury police detective and did not call the alleged victim before the grand jury.

The state Supreme Judicial Court disagreed with that decision and ordered the court to reinstate the indictment and return the case to the trial list. Justice Robert Cordy said in the decision that the court has ruled in numerous cases that an indictment is permitted based solely on hearsay evidence.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday, with the trial scheduled to start on April 11.

A trial is also scheduled to begin on April 24 in the case of Michael L. Jackson, 48, of Edgartown, who was indicted last spring on two counts of rape. The offense allegedly took place in June 2015 in Edgartown.

Superior court sessions usually take place twice a year in Dukes County, in the spring and the fall.