Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the appellate court's finding that the motive remained open, while also describing a money-related dispute and provocation, was arbitrary and violated in dubio pro reo.
Decisione estratta
Yes. The reasoning was internally contradictory and unsupported by the record; the motive finding could not stand.
Motivazione estratta
The court held that the cantonal court simultaneously treated the motive as unresolved and, in its reasoning, relied on a dispute over money and a provocation by the victim. Such mutually incompatible findings create an irreconcilable contradiction and amount to arbitrariness, especially since the alleged dispute was not supported by witnesses or other decisive evidence.