trial to complain on appeal, citing in support the case of OSENI VS THE STATE (2012) ALL FWLR (PT. 619) 1037, para 71. On the Appellant???s contention that the learned trial Judge placed reliance on the uncorroborated evidence of a child (PW1), it was submitted in response that Exhibits A and A1 as well as the evidence of PW4 aptly corroborated the evidence of PW1. On the non tendering of the Appellant???s statement at Bamaina Police Station, it was submitted that same does not amount to withholding of evidence and not fatal to the prosecution???s case since the learned trial Judge did not rely on it. The case of PEOPLE OF LAGOS STATE VS UMARU (2014) ALL FWLR (PT. 737) 679, F ??? G was cited in support. Besides, the prosecution is not bound to call a particular number of witnesses, as decided in BELLO SHURUMO VS THE STATE (2010) 12 SCNJ 47. 11 Starting from the very beginning by re-stating the well entrenched position of the law in Criminal trials, it is merely a restatement of the time hallowed and immutable principle of law to say that the prosecution has the heavy and unshifting burden of proving the guilt of an accused person beyond reasonable doubt and with no corresponding duty on the accused to prove his innocence. See ASAKE VS THE NIG. ARMY COUNCIL & ANOR (2007) 1 NWLR (PT. 1015) 408; OGIDI VS THE STATE (2005) 5 NWLR (PT. 918) 286. In legal parlance, rape simply means a forceful sexual intercourse with a girl or woman without her giving consent to it or when in law she is incapable of giving her consent. See POSU & ANR VS THE STATE (2011) LPELR ??? 1969 (SC). The essential ingredients of the offence of rape statutorily provided in Section 282 of the Penal Code as judicially interpreted and endorsed in a plethora of judicial authorities which the prosecution must prove to succeed are the following:a. That the accused had sexual intercourse with the prosecutrix (the victim). b. That the act of sexual intercourse was done without