Key legal question
Whether the cantonal court violated the right to be heard, arbitrariness ban, or presumption of innocence by relying on the defendant's own statements rather than the 1999 accounts and additional accounting records.
Extracted holding
No. The court reasonably relied on the defendant's admissions about his income and could in anticipatory appreciation reject further evidence without arbitrariness.
Extracted reasoning
The defendant's statements were clear, concerned the relevant period, and were not contradicted by the record. The appellate court gave rational reasons for not relying on the profit and loss statement; therefore neither the evidentiary assessment nor the refusal to take further evidence was arbitrary, and no serious doubt remained under in dubio pro reo.