Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the prosecution's federal criminal appeal sufficiently challenged the cantonal court's refusal to hear the private complainants' appeal against the acquittal and civil-claim ruling.
Extrahierter Entscheid
The appeal was not sufficiently substantiated against the reasoning of the cantonal court; the Federal Supreme Court therefore did not enter into the appeal.
Extrahierte Begründung
The appellant did not show in a concrete and detailed manner why the cantonal court's application of former St. Gallen procedural law was arbitrary. Under the applicable rules, private complainants could appeal the civil claim if the value threshold was met, and the court's treatment of the civil claim after acquittal was not evidently unlawful.