The first civil trial over this case ruled ‘as the ‘A’’s right thumbmark on the written confirmation attached to the ‘A’’s registration certificate is a duplicate, the written confirmation is deemed as a forged copy’, which was confirmed by the Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, in the above first civil trial, a judicial scrivener ‘B’ testified that he received the ‘A’’s right thumbmark on the written confirmation; however, he was later prosecuted for perjury and found guilty at the first criminal trial.

In defense of ‘B’ at the criminal trial on an appeal, DR & AJU (i) revealed the registration of the written confirmation was made through fact inquiry with a registry office and (ii) proved that it is the customary practice of judicial scriveners to have a right thumbmark on only one copy of a written confirmation and make a copy of such original, then stamp a judicial scriveners’ seal on both original and copy of written confirmation for submission to a registry office; a registry office keeps the original written confirmation with original right thumbmark and returns the copy of written confirmation together with a certificate of registration. As a result, DR & AJU drew the dismissal of the original trial’s conviction and an acquittal at the trial on an appeal.

This case is evaluated as a very unusual case in the light of the point that there are not many cases where the original trial is dismissed at a criminal trial on an appeal and a criminal trial usually respects the related final civil judgment.