Facts
The District Court of Horgen convicted the appellant [A.] by judgment of July 22, 2021 for simple assault, trespass, repeated threats, and repeated acts of violence. [A.] filed an appeal on August 2, 2021. He received the reasoned judgment on February 3, 2022. On February 23, 2022, the wife of [A.] submitted a letter to the High Court of the Canton of Zurich stating that her husband had been ill for a long time and was 100% incapacitated for work until February 25, 2022. In a submission dated March 21, 2022, [A.] stated that he was now 20% capable of working, which was, however, not sufficient to prepare the appeal statement. On May 3, 2022, [A.] filed a request for the restoration of the time limit with the High Court. He justified this by stating that due to health problems, he had only been able to draft the appeal statement from April 19, 2022 onwards. The appeal statement was received by the High Court on May 19, 2022. By decision of August 8, 2022, the High Court did not enter into the appeal statement of [A.] as he had not made up for the missed procedural act within the time limit.Considerations
The Federal Supreme Court dismisses the appeal of [A.] . It considers that despite his partial incapacity for work due to…