Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 470

Considering the offender liable for the victim's death even if his act was not the direct cause or the sole cause. If the victim suffered from a disease or injury capable of causing death and the offender, by his act, hastened the victim's death. Art. 157/4, Penal Code. - 122 - Penal - The judgment's confidence in the incident witnesses' statements that the two appellants quarrelled with the victim and one pulled him by his hair while the second struck him on the head, whereupon he fell to the ground and died, and the forensic medical report's and the forensic physician's statements before the trial court conclusively establishing that severe psychological agitation and physical exertion resulting from the quarrel had hastened death. Sufficient to establish the causal link between the appellants' act and the victim's death. The challenge in this regard. Inadmissible.