Till now we have inquired into problems about application of the Criminal Code Article 310 centering around the Supreme Court's case.
To apply Article 310 to the case, the action of article 307① is to be true and a thing about only public interest.
As the truth is a objective structure factor of article 307①, it is an acknowledge object of Intent, therefore if one believe non-true factor as true factor, he falls into an error of factor, So his action conforms not to article 307② but rticle 307①.
And the aim of public interest is an subjective factor for justification of article 310, but the aim of maligning an innocent person is an subjective factor for justification of article 309.
So the former is factor for decision of unlawfulness, the latter is a factor for decision of structure.
After all without the former, the unlawfulness of the action is still recognized, without the latter the structure of the action is cut.

[대상판결]
  1. 대법원 1995.6.30. 선고 95도1010 판결
  2. 대법원 2004. 5. 14. 선고 2003도5370 판결
  3. 대법원 2003. 12. 26. 선고 2003도6036 판결
  4. 대법원 2005. 7. 15. 선고 2004도1388 판결
  5. 대법원 2003. 11. 28. 선고 2003도3972 판결
 < 연구 >
  Ⅰ. 검토의 대상
  Ⅱ. 형법 제310조
  Ⅲ. 제309조(출판물에 의한 명예훼손죄)와 제310조
  Ⅴ. 모욕죄와 제310조
  Ⅵ. 결론
 [Abstract]

• 권오걸(경북대학교 법과대학 법학부) | Kwon Oh Geol (College of Law, Kyungpook National University)