Questão jurídica principal
Whether the criminal appeal became moot after the appellant’s death
Decisão extraída
The criminal appeal was struck from the docket as moot because the deceased appellant’s relatives were not entitled to continue the appeal in the criminal part.
Fundamentação extraída
Death of the accused during cantonal proceedings normally ends the case, but a pending federal criminal appeal by a convicted person who dies does not pass to the relatives in the criminal part.