Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The ap­pel­late pro­ceed­ings are based on the evid­ence that was taken in the pre­lim­in­ary pro­ceed­ings and in the main pro­ceed­ings be­fore the court of first in­stance.

² Evid­ence taken by the court of first in­stance shall only be taken again if:

a.

rules on evid­ence have been in­fringed;

b.

the evid­ence taken was in­com­plete;

c.

the files on the evid­ence taken ap­pear to be un­re­li­able.

³ The ap­pel­late au­thor­ity shall take the re­quired ad­di­tion­al evid­ence ex of­fi­cio or at the re­quest of a party.