Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 549

The court’s right to dispense with all or some investigative procedures and decide the case based on the confession alone without need for other evidence. Articles 156 and 157/1 of the Criminal Procedures and Trials Law. - The court’s deriving from the appellant’s confession support for the other evidence on which it relied in forming its conviction as to the correct account of the facts of the case. Faulting the judgment for its response to the plea of invalidity of the confession. Unavailing. - 239 - Criminal Procedures and Trials