Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1829

The determining consideration for the permissibility of a challenge is the characterisation of the act as charged in the action, not the characterisation conferred upon it by the court. - Bringing the criminal action against the appellant on the characterisation that the offence was the felony of forcibly having intercourse with a female. The challenged judgment treating the offence charged against him as the misdemeanour of having intercourse with a woman who had attained twenty-one years of age with her consent. Permissibility of an appeal in cassation against the judgment issued therein. - 496 - Criminal Procedures and Trials