AMISSAH J.A.
The appellant in this case was convicted of assault upon the complainant, the wife of his neighbour. There was a second charge of causing damage to the complainant’s spectacles upon which he was also convicted. The prosecution’s case which the court accepted, was that prior to the day of the incident, relations had become strained between the neighbours. There was a hedge which separated their two properties. It had a hole in it. The appellant sought to block it. The complainant and her husband, taking the view that the hedge was wholly within their property objected to the appellant’s interference with it. Heated arguments between the parties on either side of the hedge occurred over the rival claims. On the day of the incident, the complainant’s husband had got someone to remove the barriers erected by the appellant blocking the openings in the hedge. But this man had been stopped by the appellant. When the complainant’s husband returned from work he found this assignmen…