the accused person recorded by the Examining Magistrate of this court. The police case file and the statement of the accused recorded by the Examining Magistrate during Preliminary inquiry into the matter were received in evidence as exhibit “A” and exhibit “B” respectively. After the reception of these exhibits in evidence, the learned Deputy State Counsel informed the court that the prosecution’s case was ended. Following the court’s ruling at the close of the case for the prosecution, the accused was found to have a case to answer and he elected to give evidence on oath. He informed the court that he had no witness to call to testify on his behalf. The accused person’s defense is a complete denial of the commission of the offences with which he is charged. He told the court that he was a builder working with a company called “Bons” in Douala. Sometime in July 2016, while he was in Douala he received a message that his grandmother had died in Bafoussam. He travelled to Buea en route to Bafoussam. While in Buea he met the victim of the offences in both counts, one Goodness Tanyi, and they became friends. He enquired from Goodness Tanyi what her age was and she told him she was eighteen years old. She paid him many visits at his apartment at Buea town until the 20/07/2016 when he travelled to Bafoussam to attend his grandmother’s funeral. When he returned to Buea in the month of August 2016, Goodness Tanyi continued paying him visits in his apartment at Buea town. On one of such visits on the 19/08/2016, Tanyi Goodness sat in a chair in his apartment and fell asleep. She left his house that evening for her parents’ home at 8 pm. Shortly after her departure, Tanyi Goodness phoned to let him know that she had been locked out of their house by her parents. Tanyi Goodness then returned to his flat and spent the night in a chair on his flat. The next day she left his apartment for his parents’ house. In the evening that very same day Tanyi Goodness was accompanied to his apartment by members of her family who wanted to know where their daughter and sister spent the previous night and with whom. He was then taken to the police station by the relatives of Tanyi Goodness. Under cross-examination the accused told the court that he and Tanyi Goodness were friends for less than a month and that he was not aware that she was just 13 years old. He denied the suggestion that Tanyi Goodness had ever slept in his bed. He said he could recall the number of times he invited the victim to his residence. He said it is not true that he told the Examining Magistrate that he had sexual intercourse with the victim of the offences in both counts. He denied the suggestion that Tanyi Goodness was his girlfriend and he insisted that they had a platonic relationship. He said that Tanyi Goodness told him that he was 18 years old and was in Lower Sixth Form in Bilingual Grammar School, Buea. The evidence adduced by the prosecution against the accused is documentary that is exhibit “A” and Exhibit “B”. There was no oral evidence adduced by the prosecution during the trial since the prosecution did not call any witness to testify. The Police Report, Exhibit “A” was purportedly tendered and received in evidence under Section 336(b) of the Criminal Procedure Code while the statement of the accused during preliminary inquiry was purportedly tendered and received in evidence under Section 336(a) of the Criminal Procedure Code. As far as the admission of Exhibit “A” is concerned it is