Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1584

Commission of several offences for a single purpose, inseparably connected with one another. Its consequence. The obligation to impose the punishment prescribed for the most serious of them, or for one of them if they carry the same punishment. Article 84 of the Penal Code. The criterion for this. Fulfilment of two conditions: unity of purpose and indivisibility. - Unity of purpose. Its meaning: the offender seeks through his multiple offences to achieve a single objective, meaning that they proceed from a single motive, which requires identity of the right infringed. - Indivisibility. Its meaning. The existence of a close connection between the offences that makes them a criminal unity. - Issuing several cheques, all or some of which lack funds, in favour of one person on one day for one transaction, whatever the date borne by each and the amount for which it was issued. Constitutes indivisible criminal activity. Its consequence. Punishing their perpetrator with a single punishment. Extinction of the criminal action upon the issuance of one final judgment of conviction and acquittal in any of them. Preclusion of bringing another criminal action for the same acts or facts.