Facts
The appellant [X.] was ordered by the Civil Court of the Sense District on 22 March 2013 to pay monthly maintenance contributions of CHF 800.-- to his ex-wife [A.] . [A.] filed a criminal complaint on 7 April 2014 for neglecting maintenance obligations for the period from January to April 2014. The Police Court of the Sense District sentenced [X.] on 4 September 2014 to a conditional fine of 15 daily rates of CHF 50.--.
[X.] failed to pay the maintenance contributions from 1 May to 31 August 2015. [A.] filed a criminal complaint. The Public Prosecutor's Office punished him on 19 January 2016 with a conditional fine of 30 daily rates of CHF 60.-- and revoked the conditional execution of the sentence granted by the Police Court on 4 September 2014.
The Cantonal Court of the Canton of Fribourg dismissed [X.] 's appeal on 27 March 2017. [X.] requests with a complaint in criminal matters that the judgment of the lower court be annulled, the case be referred back to the lower court, and that he be granted free legal aid.
Considerations
The Federal Court is not required to examine all legal questions that arise like a first-instance criminal court. It reviews, under the title of Art. 106 para. 1 FSCA, the application of the law ex officio, in principle, only the objections raised, unless the legal defects are obvious.
The complaint does not meet the federal legal requirements for reasoning, neither in the sense of Art. 42 para. 2 FSCA nor with regard to Art. 97 para. 1 FSCA. The appellant claims that he described in the appeal proceedings that he was unable to make the maintenance payments because he had been terminated and could not work due to health reasons.
The Federal Court has to base its judgment on the facts established by the lower court. For the first period, May to July 2014, the appellant was employed in the same employment relationship as at the time of the…