Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1108

Every conviction judgment must include the statutory provision under which judgment was rendered. The basis for this: the principle of legality of crimes and punishments. - Omission from the first-instance judgment, whose reasons were adopted and which was amended by the challenged judgment, of the statutory provision under which punishment was imposed on the appellant invalidates it. Its reference at its outset to the charging provisions under which the Public Prosecution requested his punishment does not protect it from this defect, so long as it did not disclose its adoption of them.