Hearing of Mukula’s appeal has been pushed to next week.
High Court Judge David Wangututsi has adjourned hearing to Feb 11th when the state will respond to the defence submissions.
Former health state minister Mike Mukula is challenging both his conviction and four year jail sentence.
Earlier, one of his lawyers David Mpanga submitted to court that his client was erroneously convicted for embezzlement.
He argued that ministers are not government employees, but rather political heads.
He says the magistrate was wrong to order defense accountability yet Mukula was not the Permanent Secretary to the ministry of Health.