Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1218

The court is not obliged to pursue the appellants' defence in every particular it raises. The response is implicit in the conviction. - Weighing and assessing witness statements. A matter for the trial court. - Accepting the accused's statements against himself and others at any stage of the action. A matter for the trial court, even if - 381 - Criminal Procedure and Trials he subsequently retracts them. - Contradictions in the statements of a witness or an accused. These do not vitiate the judgment, so long as it inferred guilt from them without contradiction.