京都地方检察厅周四对一名男子的无罪判决提起上诉，该男子被控在2013年枪杀王将食品服务公司社长。
The Kyoto District Public Prosecutors Office on Thursday appealed against the acquittal of a man charged with murdering the president of Ohsho Food Service in a 2013 shooting.
检方在庭审中主张，被告田中幸雄（60岁）就是枪手，称其DNA图谱与犯罪现场附近采集的两个烟头上发现的唾液相符。检方求处无期徒刑。田中否认指控，作无罪答辩。
The prosecutors argued at trial that defendant Yukio Tanaka, 60, was the gunman, saying that his DNA profile matched that from saliva found on two cigarette butts collected near the crime scene. They sought life imprisonment. Tanaka pleaded not guilty, denying the charges.
京都地方法院在10月16日的判决中认定，田中是否为开枪者仍存在合理怀疑，称烟头可能是第三方留下的。法院驳回了检方的主张。
In its Oct. 16 ruling, Kyoto District Court found that reasonable doubt remained over whether Tanaka was the shooter, saying that the cigarette butts could have been left by a third party. It rejected the prosecutors’ arguments.
田中因涉嫌于2013年12月19日清晨在京都山科区该公司总部前停车场用手枪射击时任王将食品服务公司社长大东隆行（72岁）的胸部和腹部而被起诉。该公司在日本全国经营“饺子的王将”连锁餐厅。检方指控田中和一名身份不明者合谋作案。
Tanaka was indicted for shooting then-Ohsho Food Service President Takayuki Ohigashi, 72, in the chest and abdomen with a handgun in a parking lot in front of the company’s headquarters in Kyoto’s Yamashina Ward early on Dec. 19, 2013. The company operates the Gyoza no Ohsho restaurant chain across Japan. The prosecution alleged that Tanaka acted in conspiracy with an unidentified person.