Trial Set in Alleged Sexual Assault : Courts: The defendant is charged with attacking an 84-year-old woman. He is said to have been a house guest.

A 34-year-old man was bound over for trial Wednesday on six charges, including the sexual assault of an 84-year-old Port Hueneme woman.

John Paul Duggan, who is being held on $500,000 bail, is accused of assaulting and beating the woman in the bedroom of her home on Oct. 24. His Superior Court trial was scheduled for Jan. 3 by Municipal Judge Barry B. Klopfer.

The woman--who is recovering at her daughter’s Ventura home--was “physically and emotionally unable to testify,” said Deputy Dist. Atty. Lela Henke-Dobroth. The victim has not identified her attacker, Henke-Dobroth said.

Duggan and the woman’s 30-year-old grandson, Alan Busher, were apparently both invited to temporarily stay at the house where the victim had lived for about 40 years, testified Detective Christopher Graham of the Port Hueneme Police Department.

Harvey Taylor, an investigator in the Ventura County district attorney’s office, testified that he consulted with Dr. Sidney Johnson, one of the three physicians who treated the victim after the attack.

In addition to receiving more than 100 stitches about the face and head, Taylor testified, the woman’s “ear was practically hanging off.”

Detective George Khoury of the Los Angeles Police Department told the court that on Oct. 25, an officer from his division stopped the driver of a brown Nissan--identified as the car Duggan allegedly stole on the morning of the attack on the Port Hueneme woman. The driver, Valentine Lemone, said he had bought the car from a drug addict for $20 near Venice Beach. Lemone later identified Duggan from a photograph as the person who sold him the car, Khoury said.

Duggan was found Nov. 15 in an alley on Lincoln Boulevard in Venice by officers who recognized him from flyers distributed earlier by Port Hueneme police.

Graham told the court that he went to the scene of the attack on C Street about 5:15 a.m. on Oct. 24.

Graham testified that Busher said he had slept in one bedroom of the house while his grandmother slept in the other and Duggan slept on the couch. Busher, who had met Duggan a few weeks earlier, said he was staying at his grandmother’s home while his was being fumigated.

In the interview, Busher said his grandmother went to bed about 10:30 the night of the attack. She was dressed in pajamas, he told Graham.

Busher said he was awakened in the pre-dawn hours by a noise, and that he went into the living room, where he heard moans coming from his grandmother’s bedroom. As he entered the bedroom, he saw a large pool of blood on the bed and splatters on the wall and the floor where his grandmother lay, he told Graham. She was still wearing her pajama top but was nude from the waist down and lying on her back.

At that point, he told Graham, Duggan, who was fully nude, rose from off his grandmother. Graham testified that Busher said he attacked Duggan and the ensuing fight ended up in the living room area, where the suspect dove headfirst through the window.

But William Maxwell, Duggan’s attorney, questioned the credibility of Busher’s statement on the grounds that he was forbidden to see his grandmother without her consent under the terms of a probation order.