TITLE 18

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 9

ASSAULT AND BATTERY

18-903.  Battery defined. A battery is any:

(a)  Willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another; or

(b)  Actual, intentional and unlawful touching or striking of another person against the will of the other; or

(c)  Unlawfully and intentionally causing bodily harm to an individual.

History:

[18-903, added 1979, ch. 227, sec. 2, p. 624.]