Key legal question
Whether the federal appeal was admissible against the cantonal decision referring the damages claim to the civil courts
Extracted holding
The appeal was inadmissible because the cantonal court had not rendered a main judgment on the civil claim, but only a procedural decision reserving the claim to a separate civil action under Art. 29 O.G.
Extracted reasoning
Federal review was available only against judgments deciding the asserted claim on the merits. The Obergericht merely held that the compensation issue was not to be decided in the criminal proceedings and had to be pursued separately in civil litigation; such a ruling is not a main judgment.