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The judgment below
Of them, the part against Defendant A shall be reversed.
Defendant
A shall be punished by imprisonment with prison labor for ten months.
except that this judgment.
Reasons
1. Summary of the grounds for appeal (the factual error, misunderstanding of legal principles and unreasonable sentencing)
A. In light of the following circumstances, there was no fact that Defendant A and B had a speculative act or attempted to do so, and the rest of the Defendants did not aiding and abetting it.
1) 게임이용자가 홀드키를 사용하여 카드를 교체하지 아니하고, 시작버튼을 계속 누르는 방법으로 게임을 진행하는 방법이 허용되므로, 자동실행장치인 똑딱이로 시작버튼만을 계속 사용하여 게임을 진행하는 것도 허용되는 것이어서, 이를 가리켜 실력이 아닌 운에 따라 자동으로 게임을 진행하게 하는 것이라 할 수 없다. 2) 점수보관증은 게임이용자가 획득한 점수를 다음에 사용할 수 있도록 발행한 것으로 행위자에게 재산상 이익을 취하게 하는 것이 아니므로, 점수보관증의 발행하였다고 하여 사행행위에 해당한다고 할 수 없다.
B. Although the legal principles (defendant A) should distinguish between the profits accrued from the lawful operation of the game of this case and the profits accrued from the speculative act, the court below did not distinguish them and collected all of them as illegal profits. The court below erred by misapprehending the legal principles on additional collection.
C. The sentence of the lower court (Defendant A: imprisonment for 10 months, 2 years of a stay of execution, probation, community service, 120 hours, confiscation, additional collection/Defendant B: imprisonment for six months, a stay of execution of one year, community service, 80 hours/ Defendant C, D, E, F, and G) is too unreasonable.
2. Judgment on the defendants' assertion of mistake of facts
A. Article 28 of the Game Industry Promotion Act (hereinafter “Game Industry Promotion Act”) provides that “Game business entities related to game products must observe the following matters” and subparagraph 2 of the same Article provides that “The said business entities shall be engaged in gambling and other speculative acts by using game products, or shall do so.”