BURKINA FASO
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Unity- Progress-Justice
COURT OF APPEAL OF
OUAGADOUGOU
HIGH COURT OF OUAHIGOUYA
Judgement No. 056/19
of 12/06/2019
--------Legal Department No. 044/2019
---------------------------------------HEARING OF JUNE 12, 2019,
ON CRIMINAL MATTERS
Public Prosecution v.
W.M.
-------of 01/03/2019
At the public hearing of the High Court sitting in
Ouahigouya (Burkina Faso) on the twelfth of June two thousand
and nineteen, on criminal matters in which were present:
Mr Ali SANOU, judge at the seat and acting as President,
PRESIDENT
Mr Lamine KABORE, Deputy State Counsel of Faso at the
said Court, representing the Legal Department;
TYPE OF THE OFFENCE
LEGAL DEPARTMENT,
Statutory rape
Assisted by Barrister Iliasse SAVADOGO,
Court Registrar;
DECISION
See verdict
COURT REGISTRAR,
And Mr. Idrissa DIALLO,
Sworn Interpreter;
INTERPRETER
The case was called:
PANEL
PDT: Ali SANOU
LD: Lamine KABORE
CD: Iliasse SAVADOGO
Int: Idrissa DIALLO
BETWEEN
The. State Counsel of Faso, petitioner in a flagrante delicto
proceeding,
ON THE ONE HAND
AND
W.M., born on December 31, 1995, in Ninigui/Koumbri, to W.
Madi and O.A, 23 (twenty-three) years old, Burkinabe, a baker
living in Sector 10 of Ouahigouya, single without children, who
declares to have never been convicted, given an award, recruited,
detained, or assisted;
Accused of statutory rape;