Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 76

Ignorance of the provision creating the offence and its erroneous interpretation do not preclude the existence of criminal intent. Article 42 of the Penal Code. - The judgment's statement that the appellant committed the offence of forcible sexual intercourse with a female, subject in its provisions to the Penal Code, and that criminal intent existed on his part. His plea of ignorance of criminal law on the assertion that he did not know that his act was criminalized and his ignorance that the victim refuses and soon consents to the act after he exercises a small degree of violence against her, thereby causing him to confuse a criminal rule. Incorrect. Sixth: Repeal or amendment of legislation: