Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1254

The effect of mitigating circumstances is confined to principal penalties, excluding supplementary penalties. Implication thereof. - The judgment establishing that the respondent committed the two offenses of possessing and holding the narcotic opium for personal use and customs smuggling, then deciding to refrain from pronouncing punishment. Its meaning. The judgment encompasses the principal penalty and the two supplementary penalties, namely confiscation and the fine, which vitiates it and requires its partial cassation and correction.