When a case under public prosecution is proven to be a crime, a court must render a sentence by a judgment, except as provided in Article 334.
被告事件について犯罪の証明があつたときは、第三百三十四条の場合を除いては、判決で刑の言渡をしなければならない。
The suspended execution of a sentence must be rendered by a judgment at the same time as rendition of the sentence. The same applies to the case the person is placed under probation during the period of suspended execution of the sentence.
刑の執行猶予は、刑の言渡しと同時に、判決でその言渡しをしなければならない。猶予の期間中保護観察に付する場合も、同様とする。
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suspended sentence
執行猶予
A court's decision, when it passes a sentence, to hold off carrying it out. A person sentenced to imprisonment (拘禁刑) of three years or less or a fine (罰金) of 500,000 yen or less who has not been sentenced to imprisonment before, or not within five years of finishing such a sentence, may have the whole of it suspended for one to five years from the day the judgment becomes final (Penal Code, Article 25, paragraph (1)), and may be put under probation (保護観察) for that time (Article 25-2, paragraph (1)). A person whose earlier imprisonment was itself wholly suspended may have a new sentence of two years or less suspended again where there are especially extenuating circumstances, and is then put under probation (Article 25, paragraph (2); Article 25-2, paragraph (1)). If the period passes without the suspension being revoked, the sentence loses its effect (Article 27, paragraph (1)), unless a prosecution is pending for a crime committed in the period, in which case it stays in effect and can still be revoked (paragraphs (2), (4) and (5)); it must or may be revoked if, for example, the person commits another crime in the period and is sentenced to imprisonment without suspension (Articles 26 and 26-2). A sentence of imprisonment of three years or less may also be suspended in part, the rest being served first (Article 27-2).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 25 to 27-2 as a reference.