Comfort Tawiah, 50, unemployed, was on Tuesday convicted to a fine of GHC 240 by the Kade District Magistrate Court for stealing a mobile phone.
Comfort who pleaded not guilty, will in default serve four months in prison in hard labour.
Presenting the facts of the case, Police Inspector D. A. Atigsika said the complainant, Benjamin Agbozo and the convict lived at Akyem Apinamang.
He said about three months ago, the complainant after close of work, and on reaching his house, placed his Nokia mobile phone on a wall in front of his room, and retired to bed.
The prosecutor said the complainant whilst in bed, remembered that he had left the phone on the wall, but when he went out to collect it, it was nowhere to be found.
On April 25, the complainant was in his store, when a witness in the case sent the phone to him with a message that the mother had sent him to buy her "credit".
The complainant on seeing the phone told the witness that the phone looked like his missing one so he should give it to him to have a look at
it.
The prosecutor said when the complainant checked the item list his bank account stored on it was on the phone
The complainant then asked the witness to go and call her mother and when she went, she told the Complainant that she bought the phone in Tema.
The complainant reported the case to the Police and Comfort was arrested, and in her caution statement to the police, she said she was going to town to buy food in the night when she picked the phone from the ground.