Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 218

Attempt to commit an offense. The criterion for its establishment. - The judgment's acquittal on the charge of attempted appropriation of the bank's funds for absence of its elements, followed by its statement, in the course of convicting the accused of entering immovable property in another's possession with intent to commit an offense, that he was apprehended while taking the steps necessary to appropriate the bank's funds, thereby establishing the elements of the attempted offense. The judgment's treatment of the incident as constituting only the second offense. An error in the application of the law that renders it defective and requires its cassation.