Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 464

The crimes of beating causing severe bodily pain and entering a dwelling with intent to commit a crime. Among the crimes exhaustively enumerated in Article 240 of Criminal Procedure and Trials. Settlement and individual pardon are permissible in respect thereof. The request for pardon in respect thereof must be accepted and the appellate judgment set aside. The effect of this. The appellate judgment lapses and is deemed never to have existed in respect thereof, and the appeal brought in respect thereof is deemed to have lapsed.