Battery

Battery requires offensive touching, touching someone unlawfully or applying force to another person. Aggravated battery is when that touching or force involves a weapon or results in great bodily harm.

·         Such as slapping,

·         Hitting,

·         Or punching a victim.

Offensive touching even involves kissing a woman without her will. Under common law battery required wound or broken limb as a pre requisite.

WHAT ARE EXAMPLES OF BATTERY?

Battery is more physical, and instead of threatening violent acts, you are committing them.

Some typical examples of acts that constitute battery include:

ATTEMPTED RAPE

A woman is walking alone late at night when a man jumps out and pulls her into the bushes. He strikes her repeatedly and tries to rip her clothes off. Before he can commit a sexual assault, the victim gets away. In this case, the attacker may face aggravated battery charges, because he struck her violently with the intent of harming her and may also face sexual assault charges, too.

UNWANTED TOUCHING

Touching a person that does not invite touching or blatantly says to stop is battery. For example, going by a coworker’s desk and continually pinching, slapping, or punching them, when the force is strong enough to hurt them and your intent is to hurt them, would constitute battery.

GRABBING A PERSON WITH THE INTENT TO CONTROL OR HARM THEM

Just grabbing and restraining someone physically can constitute battery, especially if you are using it as a means to control them or harm them later.