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The defendant's appeal is dismissed.
Reasons
The facts constituting the crime of fraud against the victim C of Paragraph (1) of the crime and the fraud against the victim G of Paragraph (2) of the crime are all false statements as stated in each criminal facts and they acquired money from the victims. The defendant did not make such statements to the victims.
The punishment sentenced by the court below (one year of imprisonment) is too unreasonable.
Judgment
Comprehensively taking account of the following circumstances revealed by the evidence duly adopted and investigated by the lower court regarding the assertion of mistake, the lower court can fully recognize the fact that the Defendant deceivings the victims as stated in Articles 1 and 2 of the Criminal Act, thereby deceiving the victims of money.
In light of the contents of the judgment of the first instance and the evidence duly examined by the first instance court, the first instance court’s determination on the credibility of the statement made by the first instance witness was clearly erroneous.
Unless there are extenuating circumstances to see the credibility of a statement made by a witness of the first instance trial and the result of an additional examination of evidence by the time when the appellate trial is final and conclusive, the appellate court should not reverse without permission the first instance judgment on the sole ground that the first instance judgment on the credibility of a statement made by a witness of the first instance trial is different from the appellate court’s judgment (see, e.g., Supreme Court Decisions 2006Do494, Nov. 24, 2006; 2017Do7871, Mar. 29, 2018). The victim C has consistently been introduced from an investigative agency to a court of the lower trial, and at the time the defendant was introduced from AH, a housing-related business.
The defendant was aware of the ownership of the E apartment at the time of "1,00,000 won per 30 million won or more per party".
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