Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 627

The spouse's right in the crime of adultery. Preventing the institution of criminal proceedings against the adulterous spouse, halting trial proceedings at any stage of the case, and staying execution of the final judgment. The reason for this. Its implication: waiver prevents the judiciary from examining the adulterous spouse's act under any characterization, whether as a principal perpetrator or an accomplice, or what the other adulterous spouse committed against his absent spouse. - The Public Prosecution's challenge concerning failure to recognize the effect of the connection between the act of adultery and participation in it where prosecution of the principal perpetrator in the crime of adultery carrying the more severe punishment is precluded by a personal circumstance relating to him - 172 - Penal alone. Inadmissible so long as the two crimes arose from a single act pursuant to Article 84/2 of the Penal Code, since the accused is punished for only one crime for a single act, however numerous its legal characterizations, unlike Article 84/1 of the Penal Code.