Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000175/2008 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 15 October 2008.
1. This is an appeal against a conviction for assault occasioning actual bodily harm. The appellant is a 57-year-old lady who had no previous convictions. The victim was her neighbour. The evidence revealed that, for a number of years, there had been bad feeling between the appellant and the victim and the evidence of the victim is that on the day in question, as had habitually happened, the appellant swore at her but that, on this day, instead of putting up with it, she decided to swear back