Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1583

Challenging a misdemeanour inseparably connected with a felony. Its occasion. - Assessment of the existence of a connection between offences. Within the authority of the trial court. Its condition. - The judgment’s setting out facts that are legally inconsistent with its conclusion that there is no connection, and its imposing a separate punishment for each charge, constitutes an error of law requiring intervention by the Court of Cassation and correct application of the law. - The appellant’s not restricting his challenge to the two felonies forming the subject of the first and second charges. Its implication. - The judgment’s imposing a separate punishment for the fourth charge—which is a misdemeanour—despite its inseparable connection, as apparent from the circumstances of the incident established by the judgment, with the felony of keeping narcotic substances forming the subject of the - 414 - Criminal Law first charge. Consequence. Permissibility of challenging it.