English Translation

29 T VI 674/40 9 Judgment The District Criminal Court in Prague Abtlg. VI, after today's main trial, rightly recognized the following: The defendant Stanislav Beránek, born 2l. 6. 1912 merchant, residing in Prague XIX., Aleschgasse No. 3 is acquitted according to § 259 A bs. 2 of the Criminal Procedure Code from the charge that he was on one day in Feber l940 in Prague xIX. wrongly made a replacement of the legal means of payment and thereby became guilty of the transfer according to § 1 of the Regulation No. 157/l939 Coll. Reasons : The accused is charged with the fact that he once spent in Feber l94o in Prague XIX., when there was a lack of crowns and crowns in Prague, Five in his business a replacement of this means of payment. The defendant denied that he was guilty of a criminal act and claimed that he had only written down to his clients for the lack of small change with pencil, how much they had good with him for small change, which they then raised. These circumstances have been confirmed by the witnesses Tomanová and Paula Jelinek and therefore kxkx saw the court in the action of the defendant not the actual basis of the transgression according to § 1 of the government order l57/39 Coll. d.Ges.u.Reg. and released him from the charge according to section 259 No. 2 of the criminal procedure order. Prague, 25 April 1940. received 26 April 1940 compared 26. April 1940. .....Signatures unle- serl.