Delphi Try except block dodging its purpose

Question

I made a func to check if a TObjectList is empty because the .OwnsObjects didnt work and just using [0] raised a error so i made this

function IsEmptyList(List:TObjectList<TImage>):Boolean;
begin
  try
    List[0];
    result:=False;
  except
    result:=True;
  end;
end;

I put the List[0] in thy try block and in theory it should raise the empty exception as normal and run the except block but instead it raises the exception and crashes the app.

I expected the code to run the except block but it crashed