Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 178

Holding the offender responsible for the victim's death even if his act is not the direct cause or the sole cause. If the victim suffers from an illness or injury capable of leading to - 46 - Penal Law death and the offender, by his act, hastens the victim's death. Article 157/4, Penal Code. - The judgment's reliance on the incident witnesses' statements that the appellants fought with the victim, and one of them pulled him by his hair while the second struck him on his head, whereupon he fell to the ground and died, and the conclusive establishment by the forensic medical report and the forensic physician's testimony before the trial court that the intense psychological agitation and physical exertion resulting from the fight hastened death. Sufficient to establish the causal link between the appellants' act and the victim's death. The challenge in this regard. Inadmissible. - Disputing the soundness of what the court inferred from the case papers and evidence. Is not admissible before the Court of Cassation. - 47 - Penal Law Criminal intent and unintentional fault - In general: