Questão jurídica principal
Whether the conviction for neglect of maintenance duties under Art. 217 StGB was unlawful because the defendant allegedly could not be expected to take up additional employment.
Decisão extraída
The defendant could reasonably have taken up a remunerative part-time job in addition to his farm work and thus could have met his maintenance duty.
Fundamentação extraída
The cantonal findings showed that he could have worked between 09:30 and 16:00 in his former field as an employed worker. The Federal Court was bound by those findings and accepted that a move from self-employment to employment was reasonably exigible.