Eric Nyarko, a farmer who hit the face of a woman resulting in a cut on the eye, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment in hard labour by the Kade District Magistrate Court.
Nyarko pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay a compensation of GHC 500 to the victim, Abena Sika.
Police Inspector Francis Cobbina told the court that both the convict and the victim lived in the same compound at Domonom near Kade.
On June 16 Abena's daughter, Akosua Dokua, prepared soup that a goat belonging to a neighbour, Awonye, poured out.
Akosua sent a message through her son to Awonye and requested that she sent money for her to prepare another soup.
The son did not meet Awonye but her daughters, Abigail and Gladys, who replied that their mother would not pay for any damage.
The son also delivered the reply to his mother who set off to Awonye's house with the intention of confronting her daughters over the reply she received.
On her way, she met the daughters of Awonye and a confrontation resulted in a fight.
They were separated and both factions went back to their houses, but later the convict went to Abena's house and told her daughter, Dokua, not to bother Awonye's children since their mother was not around.
Dokua's younger sister, Stella Badu, hinted her that the daughter of the convict, Janet Tetteh, had advised Abigail and Gladys to report Dokua to the police for assaulting them.
That resulted in a quarrel between Janet and Stella but the convict would not allow anybody to separate them and as Dokua attempted to separate
them, the convict hit her with a belt.
The complainant (Abena Sika) therefore approached the convict and asked him why he was encouraging the fight.
The convict used a piece of firewood to hit the complainant's face and she sustained a deep cut on the left eye.
The complainant fell down unconscious and was taken to the hospital.