Questão jurídica principal
Whether the appellate court had to examine ex officio and rule on the acquitted defendant's compensation claim for expenses under the criminal procedure code.
Decisão extraída
Yes. The authority must examine the claim ex officio, hear the party if necessary, and request itemization when needed; failure to address the request required remittal for a decision.
Fundamentação extraída
The defendant expressly sought compensation, but the cantonal judgment contained no reasoning or dispositive ruling on it. This made it unclear whether the court had fulfilled its statutory duty to examine the claim under Art. 429 StPO. The Federal Supreme Court would not decide the merits in the first instance.