Kernrechtsfrage
Whether an emailed conversion order was validly served and thus triggered legal effect.
Extrahierter Entscheid
No. The conversion order had to be in written form and served under the applicable formal requirements; email did not satisfy those requirements.
Extrahierte Begründung
The court held that post-verdict orders altering a fine into detention have a judgment-like character and must meet the same formal requirements as the original penal order. By analogy to summons rules, service had to be written and, as far as possible, by post or other prescribed means. Email does not fulfill the statutory writing requirement, and no urgent situation justified deviation.