(twelve) months suspended prison term; the accused apologized and asked for clemency from the Court; the court then reserved the case for judgement to be handed down on March 20, 2019; on that date, the court ruled as follows; II- PROCEDURE A- Prosecution 1- Guilt Whereas Article 353 of the Penal Code punishes anyone who, through clumsiness, carelessness, inattention, negligence or failure to observe regulations, unintentionally commits homicide or unintentionally causes homicide; whereas this offence, to be classified as such, presupposes the combination of three elements, namely the death of a person, a fault and a causal link between the fault and the death of the victim; Whereas in this case, N. N aka H is accused of having involuntarily caused the death of B. A Nouro; whereas it is in fact common knowledge that the victim died during a dispute between the accused and his concubine GANAME Ammi; that during this dispute, the accused slapped and punched GANAME Ammi; that he thus undermined the latter's physical integrity, which constitutes a criminally reprehensible offence; that it is established that GANAME Ammi, while agitated by the blows received, kicked her child B. A. N, who was on the scene, against the wall, thus causing his death; that, in other words, had it not been as a result of the blows received by GANAME Ammi, she would not have acted in such a way as to cause the child's death; that accordingly the causal link between the accused's fault and the death of the child is sufficiently established; that he should therefore be kept within the scope of the crime of manslaughter and found guilty of it; 2- Sentence Whereas Article 353 of the Penal Code punishes manslaughter with 3 (three) months to 2 (two) years prison term and a fine of CFAF 150,000 to 600,000 or one of these two penalties only; Whereas N. N aka H is guilty of manslaughter; whereas he expressed at the hearing regrets for having committed these acts, thus acknowledging his reprehensible behaviour; whereas he should therefore be sentenced to a prison term of 12 (twelve) months; Whereas he has never been the subject of a previous conviction for a crime or felony under ordinary law; whereas, pursuant to Article 694 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the enforcement of his sentence should be suspended; B- Cost Whereas Article 473 of the Code of Criminal Procedure provides that any