diff --git a/core/Verdicttype.cc b/core/Verdicttype.cc
index 7225a07e24e8d1fa587be82587f533fad9468a87..a4658b7256fddbdb51966b1e13fe2c8e09e19045 100644
--- a/core/Verdicttype.cc
+++ b/core/Verdicttype.cc
@@ -416,7 +416,6 @@ int VERDICTTYPE::JSON_decode(const TTCN_Typedescriptor_t& p_td, JSON_Tokenizer&
       }
     }
   } else {
-    error = FALSE;
     verdict_value = UNBOUND_VERDICT;
     return JSON_ERROR_INVALID_TOKEN;
   }