Question juridique clé
Whether the refusal to hear the defendant's wife as a witness was arbitrary
Solution extraite
The appellate court could, in anticipatory assessment of evidence, consider the proposed testimony immaterial; no arbitrariness was shown.
Motifs extraits
Even if the wife confirmed the victim's account, it would hurt the defendant; if she denied it, it would not help him because the appellate court already assumed he behaved properly in her presence.