OSAKA -- A high court acquitted a man of injuring a policeman, overturning a lower court ruling that had given him a suspended prison term.
The Osaka High Court found a 47-year-old unemployed man from Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, not guilty of injuring an assistant inspector from Fushimi Police Station.
Earlier, the Kyoto District Court had convicted the man of interfering with a police officer in the execution of his duties and inflicting bodily injury, sentencing him to 10 months in prison, suspended for three years.
"It is incomprehensible that the witnesses who were at the scene did not see the policeman being attacked," said Presiding Judge Ichiro Nakasone at the Osaka High Court in handing down the ruling.
The judge also ruled that the man's statements during the police investigation were "unreliable."
The assistant police inspector questioned the man on a street in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, in September last year, and then asked him to come voluntarily to a police box nearby for questioning, according to the indictment.
The man had been indicted for shoving the chest of the policeman, making him fall to the ground twice and inflicting him with injuries that took one week to heal.
Mainichi
October 8, 2007
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