Whether the appeal against the first-instance criminal judgment was admissible despite lacking conclusions and reasons.
No. Under the applicable former Vaud criminal procedure, an unreasoned declaration of appeal had to be followed by a motivated memorandum within ten days; that was not done.
The judgment was served under the former CPP-VD, so the appeal had to be treated under that law and by the old authorities. Since the appellant filed only a bare declaration and failed to supplement it within the legal time limit after receiving the full judgment, the appeal was manifestly inadmissible.