Judicial principle — Kuwait Court of Cassation

Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 285

State of Kuwait · Penal Law · Ministry of Justice — Court of Cassation — Technical Office

English translation of the principle

Complicity by agreement and incitement. How they are established. For their proof, it suffices that the court believes they occurred from the circumstances and attendant circumstances of the case. - Criminal intent in the offence of enabling an arrested person to escape. The criterion for its establishment. The perpetrator’s knowledge that the person he enabled to escape was under arrest, and the direction of his will towards enabling him to escape. The judgment’s addressing each element separately. Not necessary, so long as what it sets out indicates its existence. An example of sound reasoning establishing complicity by agreement and incitement in the offence of enabling an arrested person to escape with knowledge that he was under arrest.
Arabic original
الاشتراك بطريقي الاتفاق والتحريض. كيفية تحققهما. يكفى لثبوتهما اعتقاد المحكمة حصولهما من ظروف الدعوى وملابساتها. - القصد الجنائي في جريمة تمكين مقبوض عليه من الفرار. مناط تحققه. بعلم الجاني بأن من مكنه من الفرار مقبوضاً عليه واتجاه إرادته إلى تمكينه من الفرار. تحدث الحكم استقلالاً عن كل ركن من أركانها. غير لازم مادام أن ما أوردته يدل على توافره. مثال لتسبيب سائغ لتوافر الاشتراك بطريقي الاتفاق والتحريض في جريمة تمكين مقبوض عليه من الفرار مع العلم بأنه مقبوض عليه.
Original Arabic judgment citations

(الطعن ٢٤١/٢٠٠٥ جزائي جلسة ١٢/٧/٢٠٠٥ القسم الخامس المجلد الثاني عشر ص٤٣٣)

Source: Court of Cassation legal principles collection — Penal Law — Ministry of Justice — Court of Cassation — Technical Office. Printed page 70. PDF pages: 67.

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