Une Cour d'appel peut regarder la décision sur la peine pour mieux comprendre les motifs de la culpabilité

R. v. Kaplan, 2019 BCCA 356

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[56]        This is evident, for example, by the contrast in the findings as to Mr. O’Brien where the judge explicitly said in his reasons for sentence (2017 BCSC 2139) that Mr. O’Brien did not have objective foreseeability of bodily harm:

[48]      With respect to Mr. O’Brien, he was convicted of a lesser offence. That was so because I could not conclude that he had objective foreseeability of the consequences. …

A court of appeal may look at the reasons for sentence as well as the reasons for conviction to understand the basis for conviction: R. v. B.J.T., 2019 ONCA 694 at para. 43, citing R. v. Trobert, 2000 SKCA 113.