Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 439

Premeditation. A mental state existing within the offender and inferred from external facts from which the judge deduces it. - Lying in wait. The offender's waiting for the victim for a period of time, long or short, in a place from which he expects him to come, to surprise him by assaulting him. - 113 - Penal - Assessing the existence of the two circumstances of premeditation and lying in wait. Within the trial judge's discretion. Its condition. An example of sound demonstration of the existence of the two circumstances of premeditation and lying in wait in an intentional killing offence. Fourth: Concurrence: