..-~ . 22_ 5 ······-····-················································ ~·-············································ We are also satisfied like the trial judge was that the victim was telling the truth that the appellant, on gun point, raped her. 10 The evidence on record supports the finding of The trial judge that the victim reported to her mother in law immediately after she was raped but her mother in law withheld this information and told lies to save her only son. 15 We can not fault the trial judge when he found corroboration of the victim's testimony and that penetration was proved. Grounds 1 and 2 would therefore fail. On sentence our Constitution states that the power belongs 20 to the people of Uganda. The elected representatives of the people who enact laws for this country (Members of Parliament) in the name of the people of Uganda enacted that the maximum sentence for rape should be death. Like the learned Assistant DPP submitted, the appellant was 25 entrusted with the gun which was bought by the people of Uganda to enable the appellant guard them. Instead he abused with impunity the trust put in him of protecting the public. If the death penalty was intended to terminate a dangerous person like the appellant from society, then 30 where the court is reluctant to impose the maximum sentence to a young offender like the appellant, it must however impose such an appropriate custodial sentence so as to ensure that the society will be in peace for a reasonably long period of time. We are persuaded by the 6