Allowing the appeal: a plea of guilty with explanation is not known to our law, and when such a plea is put forward it is incumbent on the trial court to consider very carefully the explanation whether it is a plea of guilty or not or autrefois acquit or autrefois convict as the case may be. In this case, since the explanation showed that the appellant was not pleading guilty or admitting the offence, the trial magistrate should have entered a plea of “not guilty” and tried the case accordingly. Kotokoli v The Republic, H.C., 7 November 1969, unreported, followed.