THE COURT Considering the documents in the file; Considering the accused in his answers; Considering the Public Prosecution in its submissions; Considering Attorney KONE Catherine, lawyer for the accused, in her pleadings; After having deliberated in accordance with the law; Considering that following the indictment judgment n ° 67/2018 dated March 13, 2018, the Indictment Chamber of the Bouake Court of Appeal referred the named FANNY Seydou to this court for the facts of rape; That these facts are provided for and punished by articles 354 and 359 paragraph 2 of the Penal Code; Considering that it results from the facts that on August 08, 2016, SOUMAHORO Fanta took and put FANNY Seydou at the disposal of the Odienné police station and lodged a complaint against him for acts of rape; That in support of her complaint, she exposed that on August 3, 2016, she had met, on the way, the accused, a man unknown to her, who wanted to have sex with her and mentioned that despite her supplications, he insisted and threatened to kill her, thus forcing her to let him to do what he wanted; That she emphasized that this is how he had slept with her; Considering that questioned by the investigating agents on these facts, FANNY Seydou made no difficulty admitting them; That he declared in fact that when he went to cut wood, he had met the victim to whom he expressed his desire to have sex with her and made know that after she rejected his advances, she had begged him in vain to renounce to his project of intercourse; That she said that by force he had imposed the said intercourse on her; Considering that once brought to the Odiennné prosecutor's office on August 11, 2016, a judicial information was opened against him for acts of rape committed against SOUMAHORO Fanta; Indicted with the aforementioned facts and questioned on the merits, he maintained his confessions made during the preliminary investigation by specifying that he had forcibly put