Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 224

There is no punishment for merely thinking of committing an offence, resolving to do so, or undertaking acts - 56 - Penal Law preparatory to its commission. The offender must be punished if he goes beyond those stages to the stage of commencing execution. The basis: an attempt is established by commencing execution of an act immediately preceding execution of the material element of the offence and necessarily leading to it. - The judgment's failure to set out the facts of the action, including the acts and purposes constituting the elements of the two offences of kidnapping by deception with intent to commit indecent assault and attempted commission thereof, of which it convicted the appellants. A deficiency requiring its cassation.