{"id":42276,"date":"2023-03-14T23:41:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T23:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91"},"modified":"2023-03-14T23:56:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T23:56:05","slug":"83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91","title":{"rendered":"83 year old acquitted for assaulting his friend aged 91"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>A Choma magistrate court has acquitted an 83 year old man of assaulting his fellow senior citizen. Choma Resident Magistrate Ethel Phiri acquitted Samson Simusa, a farmer of Simusa village in chief Mapanza\u2019s chiefdom in Choma district, after finding him innocent of an assault charge.<\/p>\n

Simusa was charged for assaulting his colleague Andrew Muleka aged 91, of Nyoonde village of the same chiefdom. Magistrate Phiri said the court has acquitted Simusa because the evidence by the defense witnesses was not correlating.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018The evidence before the court lacked correlation and therefore you are acquitted of the charge\u201d\u2018 the court stated.<\/p>\n

Facts before the court are that, on 10th November 2022, the two senior citizens were quarrelling over a piece of land that belonged to a deceased person in their area and later it turned into a fight.<\/p>\n

Muleka then reported the matter to police that Simusa had assaulted him. Simusa was charged with assault causing actual bodily harm, contrary to section 248 of the penal code Chapter 87 of the Laws of Zambia.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Zambia<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. A Choma magistrate court has acquitted an 83 year old man of assaulting his fellow senior citizen. Choma Resident Magistrate Ethel Phiri acquitted Samson Simusa, a farmer of Simusa village in chief Mapanza\u2019s chiefdom in Choma district, after finding him innocent of an assault charge. Simusa was charged for assaulting his colleague […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":42275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-42276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"\n83 year old acquitted for assaulting his friend aged 91 - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Choma magistrate court has acquitted an 83 year old man of assaulting his fellow senior citizen. Choma Resident Magist ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"83 year old acquitted for assaulting his friend aged 91\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Choma magistrate court has acquitted an 83 year old man of assaulting his fellow senior citizen. Choma Resident Magist ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-03-14T23:41:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-14T23:56:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678824715.22.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"799\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"450\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"83 year old acquitted for assaulting his friend aged 91\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-03-14T23:41:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-14T23:56:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91\"},\"wordCount\":188,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678824715.22.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"miscellaneous\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91\",\"name\":\"83 year old acquitted for assaulting his friend aged 91 - Zambia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678824715.22.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-03-14T23:41:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-14T23:56:05+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"A Choma magistrate court has acquitted an 83 year old man of assaulting his fellow senior citizen. Choma Resident Magist ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678824715.22.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678824715.22.jpg\",\"width\":799,\"height\":450,\"caption\":\"83 year old acquitted for assaulting his friend aged 91\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"83 year old acquitted for assaulting his friend aged 91\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/\",\"name\":\"Zambia\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"83 year old acquitted for assaulting his friend aged 91 - Zambia","description":"A Choma magistrate court has acquitted an 83 year old man of assaulting his fellow senior citizen. Choma Resident Magist ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"83 year old acquitted for assaulting his friend aged 91","og_description":"A Choma magistrate court has acquitted an 83 year old man of assaulting his fellow senior citizen. Choma Resident Magist ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91","og_site_name":"Zambia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2023-03-14T23:41:39+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-03-14T23:56:05+00:00","og_image":[{"width":799,"height":450,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678824715.22.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"83 year old acquitted for assaulting his friend aged 91","datePublished":"2023-03-14T23:41:39+00:00","dateModified":"2023-03-14T23:56:05+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91"},"wordCount":188,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678824715.22.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Zambia","Zambia"],"articleSection":["all news","miscellaneous"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91","name":"83 year old acquitted for assaulting his friend aged 91 - Zambia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678824715.22.jpg","datePublished":"2023-03-14T23:41:39+00:00","dateModified":"2023-03-14T23:56:05+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"A Choma magistrate court has acquitted an 83 year old man of assaulting his fellow senior citizen. Choma Resident Magist ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678824715.22.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678824715.22.jpg","width":799,"height":450,"caption":"83 year old acquitted for assaulting his friend aged 91"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/83-year-old-acquitted-for-assaulting-his-friend-aged-91#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"83 year old acquitted for assaulting his friend aged 91"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/","name":"Zambia","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}