Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 566

The judgment's application of the connection between the two charges of sexual relations with a woman while the perpetrator is married to another and intercourse with a woman aged twenty-one with her consent, and its affirmation of the appealed judgment which sentenced the respondent to ten years' imprisonment for those two charges, although the penalty prescribed for the more serious of them, namely the first charge, is imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years and a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees, or either of these two penalties. An error of law. Requires its partial cassation and correction.