LASSEY J.
The accused is charged with the rape of a female named Mary Yeboah aged about nineteen years on the 2nd January, 1963, at a village called Aboabo No. 4. To this charge he has pleaded not guilty. The facts proved by the prosecution are as follows. The accused is a school teacher resident at Aboabo No. 4. The complainant Mary Yeboah is a school girl staying with her parents in the same village as the accused. In the morning of the 2nd January, 1963, Mary was sent by her mother to go and give a pair of sandals to a shoemaker in town for it to be repaired. On her way to the shoemaker's place near a coconut tree the accused, who was standing in front of his house, called her into his room, there overpowered her, placed her on her back on the bare cement floor and forcibly had sexual connection with her against her will. Mary cried or shouted. Her mother accompanied by her younger sister in response to her shouts came into the room in time to see the accused actually on top of Mary…