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1. The appellant in this case is 18 years of age. He pleaded guilty to the charge preferred against him of carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 16. I have been told that the girl, at the time, was two days short of her 15th birthday. The simple facts of this case were that the appellant and another youth took this girl and another girl friend to the cinema. After the cinema the appellant and this girl went home to the premises where he lived and there he had sexual intercourse with her. U