Key legal question
Whether the cantonal appeal court could reverse the first-instance acquittal without taking new evidence.
Extracted holding
The appeal court did not violate cantonal procedural law by relying on the same evidentiary record and reassessing credibility without new evidence, since it did not base itself on new facts but on the existing file.
Extracted reasoning
It may substitute its own assessment for that of the first judges when it does not depart from the established facts on essential points on the basis of new evidence; the appellant failed to show arbitrariness.