Facts in court not speculation - says judge

An Accra Circuit court Judge, Mrs Elizabeth Anderson Yeboah said it irritates her to have speculatioins presented as fact in court.

She was reprimanding a prosecutor in her court, at the 28th February Road in Accra for not investigating evidence tended in court.

The case in question involved James Otoo Lartey who had been arrested in Agbogba, a suburb of Accra with 113 wrappers of a substance suspected to be Indian Hemp.

James Lartey is said to have been arrested by a Military Police Officer on the officer's plot of land .

The prosecutor had earlier told the court that James was dressed "in full military gear". However, the "full military gear" which the prosecutor described as "military accoutrement" tend out to be only a pair of boots when tended in evidence before the court.

The court heard that James bought the boots from a security officer, upon which Judge Anderson-Yeboah said she was not surprised since these boots could be bought anywhere including the second hand clothes market at Kantamanto in Accra.

When the accused admitted that he bought the shoes from a security officer, the Judge slapped him with a fine of two hundred thousand cedis, in default, he serve three months in prison.

The substantive case involving the 113 wraps of Indian hemp has been adjourned for hearing on 2nd December.