Question juridique clé
Whether the imprisonment imposed for insolvency violated the federal prohibition of debt imprisonment under Art. 59 BV.
Solution extraite
The measure was not debt imprisonment but penal custody; it was therefore not incompatible with Art. 59 BV.
Motifs extraits
The Court relied on its earlier judgment in Keller and distinguished the threatened imprisonment under the Schaffhausen debt-enforcement law from prohibited debt imprisonment.