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The prosecutor's appeal is dismissed.
Reasons
Summary of Grounds for Appeal
According to the examination protocol of the examination of witness by the Gwangju District Court 2014Kadan440, Gwangju District Court 2014Kadan440, the defendant's statement as stated in the facts charged can be recognized as constituting perjury, but the court below acquitted the defendant. Thus, the judgment of the court below is erroneous in the misapprehension
Judgment
A. On July 11, 2014, around 15:30 on July 11, 201, the Defendant testified to the effect that, at the court of Gwangju District Court Decision 202, the Defendant appeared as a witness of the larceny case against the said court No. 2014Kadan440, and testified to the effect that “A would not have taken place while making a monetary call with the F on June 13, 2014” with respect to the ballot papers in the E apartment management office, the Defendant made a statement to the effect that “C would take place” while making a monetary call with F.
Accordingly, the defendant made a false statement contrary to his memory and raised perjury.
B. The lower court determined: (a) the Defendant did not witness the fact that C was taking a ballot paper at the time of F and telephone calls on June 13, 2013; (b) however, G as the manager of G leaves the office of management, he/she, who was a worker on duty, asked him/her about the whereabouts of the ballot paper.
In full view of the following facts: (a) the Defendant gave testimony on July 11, 2014; (b) the Defendant respondeded to the purport that G would have taken a ballot paper to the prosecutor’s question after the same statement as the facts charged when he gives testimony on July 11, 2014; (c) the Defendant has no direct witness to C with a ballot paper; and (b) the Defendant asked the counsel and the presiding judge to ask for whether there was no marking from the ballot paper; and (c) the Defendant responded to each question at the defense counsel and the presiding judge’s inquiry at the time of the testimony. As such, the Defendant stated as the facts charged by mistake that the prosecutor’s question at the time of the testimony was based on the premise that C’s criminal act of