Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 980

Criminal intent in the offence of forging official documents. Its establishment. - Criminal intent in the offence of using a document that has lost its legal force. Its nature. - Assessment of the existence of criminal intent. Relates to the facts. Determined by the trial court. - The challenged judgment's statement of grounds justifying acquittal for lack of criminal intent in the offence of using a document that has lost its legal force and for lack of certain knowledge of the partial revocation of the power of attorney issued to him by the victim. Its effect: it necessarily entails, as a matter of logical necessity, the absence of criminal intent in the offence of forging an official document. The reason: the absence of deliberate alteration of the truth that was not known in that document. Challenging the judgment in this respect. Unavailing. The reason: the sufficiency that the grounds upon which the challenged judgment was based for acquittal. It is not vitiated by one of them being defective, so long as it rests on other grounds sufficient in themselves to sustain it. - 265 - Criminal Law (15) Counterfeiting and imitating banknotes and bringing them into the country (Articles 263: 273).