On May 13, 10:35=A0am, Palindrome wrote:
> mogga wrote:
> > If you throw rocks at someone is it assault if they hit someone else?
> > How much injury counts as assualt?
>
> "An assault is committed when a person intentionally or recklessly
> causes another to apprehend the immediate infliction of unlawful force"
Agreed. That would be a 'common assualt'. The act of touching someone
without lawful excuse etc is a battery (but this is commonly referred
to as being an asault). So a light dusting with somne gravel would
count.
Moving up the scale there is then ABH and GBH for which the cites have
been given elsewhere in this thread.
> So no actual injury (or even contact) is needed.
>
> Just remember to wear your beard, if female. And don't say, "Jehovah".
>
> Ooooops..
>
> --
> Sue
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