The Appellant was charged with and convicted of the offence of rape of a school girl and impregnating a school girl. He was sentenced to thirty years’ imprisonment for rape and three years’ imprisonment for impregnating a school girl. He unsuccessfully appealed to the High Court. In his appeal to the Court of Appeal he complained that the courts below had erred in relying on PW1’s PF3 Form (Exhibit A) without noticing that the Appellant was not given an opportunity to object to its admission, rendering it an improperly admitted exhibit. He also complained that the trial court had not complied with section 240(3) of the Criminal Procedure Act [Cap 20 R.E. 2002] in according him his right to require the attendance in court of the medical officer who had examined PW1, for cross-examination. He urged us to expunge the PF3 Form (Exhibit A) from the record.

