The defendant shall be innocent.

1. The summary of the facts charged is a person who participated in an election of non-standing director of the E Union, which was implemented on February 13, 2014, and was elected.

No one shall engage in an election campaign other than distributing election campaign bulletins in an election for directors of a regional livestock industry cooperative.

피고인은 2014. 2. 10. 17:25경 인천 서구 J에 있는 피고인의 집에서 자신의 휴대전화를 이용하여 선거인인 위 조합 대의원 K의 휴대전화로 피고인의 이름을 알리고 위 비상임 이사 선거에서 지지를 호소하기 위하여 ‘안녕하세요^^ 이번 이사 선거에서 출마한 B입니다 많은 성원 부탁드립니다 건강하세요~~!’라고 기재된 내용의 문자메시지를 발송한 것을 비롯하여 별지 범죄일람표 기재와 같이 선거인인 대의원 43명에게 같은 내용의 문자메시지를 발송하여 선거운동을 하였다.

2. On November 24, 2016, the Constitutional Court rendered a decision that “The part that prohibits election campaigning under subparagraph 4 from being carried out in the “election for directors” under Article 50(4) of the former Agricultural Cooperatives Act (amended by Act No. 11690, Mar. 23, 2013; Act No. 12755, Jun. 11, 2014; Act No. 10522, Mar. 31, 201; Act No. 12755, Jun. 11, 2014; Act No. 1274, Jun. 2, 2014; Act No. 12755, Nov. 24, 2016; Act No. 13888, Jun. 24, 2016; Act No. 13855, Jun. 3, 2014; Act No. 13885, Jun. 2, 2019, 2014).

In a case where the penal law or legal provision becomes retroactively null and void due to the decision of unconstitutionality by the Constitutional Court, the defendant's case which was prosecuted by applying the relevant provisions shall be limited to a case which does not constitute a crime.

(See Supreme Court Decision 2009Do9949 Decided May 13, 201, etc.).