A conductress pleaded guilty to hitting a woman in the head with a stone, causing bleeding when she appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.

Simnone Findlay, who is from a east Kingston address, was charged with unlawful wounding. However she told the court that the complainant had also hit her and she was just retaliating.

Allegations are that on March 4, the complainant and the accused got into an argument outside a basic school when the accused used a stone to hit the complainant in the head, causing a wound.

The accused told the court that before the incident, she and the complainant got into an argument at a bus stop in Harbour View over a passenger who had not paid all the fare and since then they had another argument before the actual incident.

She said when the incident occurred, the complainant and her friends were approaching her and that the complainant had taken up a stone and she took up one. She said the complainant hit her first and she hit her back and then she realised she was bleeding.

After listening to the complainant's explanation Resident Magistrate Glen Brown fined her $20,000 or 30 days.