ABIDJAN COURT OF APPEAL
COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF ABENGOUROU
JUDGMENT W338 OF JULY 16, 2014
THE OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR
VERSUS
K. AND A
Assault and battery – Intentional Assault and battery – The accused having admitted to having
deliberately inflicted violence on the complainant - Injuries - Medical certificate -Injury causing
total incapacity for personal work for thirty days. Conviction.
The defendants must be declared guilty of assault and battery having resulted in a total
incapacity for personal work for thirty days and to convict them as they admit to having
willfully exerted violence on the complainant and that the medical certificate issued by the
doctor reveals that the injuries caused, for the victim, total incapacity for personal work for
thirty days.
THE COURT
Considering the exhibits of the correctional file registered in the complaints directory under the
number 467/2014;
Considering the witness’s statements;
Considering the public prosecution’s submissions;
Considering the defense of the accused;
After having deliberated in accordance with the law;
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
According to the interrogation report in the event of flagrante delicto dated July 11 2014, K and
A were brought before this correctional court charged with having at Apprompronou, in the
judicial district of Abengourou, on November 29. 2013, in any case not covered by the statute of
limitations, deliberately stabbed and caused injuries to B, entailing for her a total incapacity for
personal work for thirty (30) days;
Facts provided for and punished by articles 345-3 ° and 348 of the penal code;
It follows from the facts of the case that on November 29, 2013, on the pretext that Lady B had
sexual intercourse with a man other than her partner E, the brother, sister and nephew of this
one, namely K., S and A, were beating her with punches and kicks, undressed her exerting
violence on her genitals, made her drink a mixture, put it in her eyes and brush it on before
presenting her naked to the crowd alerted by her cries of distress;
Driven in emergency at the Urban Health Center of Apprompronou, B was treated by Doctor
K.M., head physician. The clinical examination carried out and reported in the medical certificate
issued by the doctor showed pelvic pain, micro bleeding from the uterus, violent headaches, a