Key legal question
Whether the supplementation of the final criminal judgment with additional procedural costs under § 169 Abs. 2 StPO/AG was arbitrary.
Extracted holding
The supplementation was not arbitrary in result; the lower court could uphold it because the original judgment and record showed that the accused had caused considerable investigative expenses and the initial cost allocation was obviously incomplete.
Extracted reasoning
Even if it remained open whether the judge had to know the exact costs or only their basis, the result was sustainable: the judgment expressly charged the accused with the costs, yet only CHF 110 was initially included despite evident further expenses for transport, detention, breath and blood tests, and police reports. The situation differed from cases where later costs arise without a prior warning or without being caused by the convicted person.