THE COURT Considering the documents in the proceedings of case RP 49/2017; Considering the submissions of the public prosecution; Considering pleading of the counsel for the accused; Considering the defense of the accused KONATE YACOUBA; And after having deliberated in accordance with the law; Whereas according to the indictment judgment N • 068 of March 13, 2018 of the Indictment Chamber of the Bouake Court of Appeal, the named KONATE YACOUBA: 20 years old, having as a counsel Lawyer COULIBALY N'GOLO DAOUDA, Attorney at Court was referred to this Criminal Court charged with the facts of rape; Facts provided for and punished by articles 354 paragraph 1 and 359 of the penal code; 1- FACTS AND PROCEDURE Whereas it emerges from the documents of the case and the debates at the bar that on March 08, 2017, Miss KAMATE NABARAKISSA seized the Odienne police station with a complaint against KONATE YACOUBA for acts of breach of trust relating to the sum of thirty-five thousand francs (35,000 F / CFA) and rape on her person; That she explained in support of her complaint that on March 4, 2017, she handed over to KONATE YACOUBA, a driver of a public goods transport vehicle, the sum of thirty-five thousand francs (35,000 F / CFA) so that he transports goods from Tieme to Odienne; the goods not being available yet, she continued, she asked him the next day to return this sum of money to her, but KONATE YACOUBA, who had nevertheless accepted the principle of the return of this sum, made it difficult to do so; That she added in saying that after several days of waiting, she went to his home to claim her due. He explained to her that he gave the money to his employer. He proposed her to go together to the aforementioned employer to recover the money. That she specified that without suspecting anything, she followed him, first in a home that, according to him was of the employer, after, in a cashew trees orchard, where in the sayings of KONATE YACOUBA, the individual they were looking for would have gone, and once in this