CASE LAW

Damage to property, threat, insult, injury

The Court of Cassation examined the decisions rendered concerning the dispute that arose between the parties due to an inheritance case. No violation of law was found in the convictions and acquittals rendered with respect to some of the offenses of insult, threat, simple assault, and damage to property; the appeals were rejected and these judgments were affirmed. However, the acquittal rendered against one defendant for the offense of insult was quashed. This was because the witness stated during the investigation stage that the defendant had insulted the complainant-defendant by saying, “Enough already, you scoundrel…”; at trial, however, the witness gave a different account. The local court rendered an acquittal without resolving the contradiction between these two statements and without explaining why it gave precedence to one statement over the other. Consequently, the Court of Cassation affirmed most of the judgments; it quashed, for inadequate reasoning, the acquittal concerning the offense of insult that had been rendered without sufficiently evaluating the contradiction between the witness statements.