Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the imprisonment imposed for insolvency violated the federal prohibition of debt imprisonment under Art. 59 BV.
Decisione estratta
The measure was not debt imprisonment but penal custody; it was therefore not incompatible with Art. 59 BV.
Motivazione estratta
The Court relied on its earlier judgment in Keller and distinguished the threatened imprisonment under the Schaffhausen debt-enforcement law from prohibited debt imprisonment.