Key legal question
Whether the cantonal court arbitrarily assessed the evidence and violated the presumption of innocence in upholding the conviction for attempted arson.
Extracted holding
The challenge failed: the conviction was supported by a consistent set of indicia, and the appellant's arguments were merely appellatory, not showing arbitrariness.
Extracted reasoning
The federal court reviewed only for arbitrariness. It accepted that repeated confessions, the absence of electrical power in the premises, the fire's location near the appellant's stored items, and traces of accelerant formed a sufficient evidentiary basis. The lower courts could prefer the confessions over later denials and reject the accidental-fire theory.