English Translation

24a 32 . Branny was at last, as it turned out, not part of the meat purchases of fellow defendants Mêstecky and Dobfensky.He is not considered as a folk villain even according to the extent of his entire black cover. The defendants Müller and Vafa-Semaka did not find that products subject to the mark had to be purchased after the 19.4.l94l,the date of entry into force of the Kövo in Frotektorat, and that the defendants Nêmejc and Koukal could not be properly refuted to believe in the legality of the meat distributions in which they participated. In so far as they and the accused Müller, Vafa-Semaka, Pavlik, Filka and Horak either before 19.4.194l, or in quantities between l0 and 20 kg after that date have obtained meat without a mark, only the provisions of § 9 of the decree of 18.9.1939 (No.206/39) are considered. The amounts recorded by the individual defendants are spread over a period of 6 to 8 months and have therefore been so small that they cannot be shown to be aware of the danger of need coverage.In other cases, the main trial gave kaine evidence that precisely the behaviour of the defendants Pavlik, Filka and Horak has acted as a bad example outside and that they have accepted negative examples of them, so far as there is no evidence of their malice. As regards the defendants Nêmejc,Koukal,Müller,Pavlik,Filka Horak and Vaña-Semaka, under these circumstances the proceedings for lack of jurisdiction of the German court within the meaning of § l9 of the decree on the exercise of criminal jurisdiction in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia of 14,4.l939 had to be terminated. In the case of the defendants convicted, it was difficult to consider that they, as gendarmerie officers and thus as guarantors of the state for the functioning of the war-food industry, preferred themselves without right, by their actions gave their still dubious comrades an unthinkable bad example and the 86438