Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the findings that the appellant poisoned the respondent and acted with intent to kill were arbitrary or violated in dubio pro reo.
Extrahierter Entscheid
The appellate court’s assessment of the evidence was not arbitrary; the circumstantial evidence, taken as a whole, excluded reasonable doubt.
Extrahierte Begründung
The court emphasized that circumstantial evidence must be assessed in its totality. The same substance was found in the drink and food; the respondent’s account was credible in its essentials; the appellant’s admissions about mixing a substance into the cola and tampering with the phone could be weighed despite her overall unreliability. The evidence supported the inference that the poison was capable of causing death and that she accepted that risk.