Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 80

- The appellant's exceeding the time limit for appealing and depositing its grounds. Its necessary consequence: a ruling that the appeal is inadmissible in form. What does not alter this. - Lawful service on the appellant. Its effect: the contents of the process have evidentiary force unless the contrary is established. - 135 - Criminal Procedures and Trials - The process server's recording that he delivered a copy of the summons to the appellant's brother residing with him at the same residence, and that the latter signed the original because the appellant was absent. Valid service. The effect thereof: the time limit for appeal by cassation runs against him from the date the judgment is pronounced.