Originally Posted by MikeR
Here's a stupid question; What's the difference? I always hear of "assult and battery" but all I know is that together it means you got hit and /or hurt. I don't understand what each one is separately.
http://adlusa.com/assault_and_battery_def.htm
" Any unlawful touching of another which is without justification or excuse. It is both a tort, Trogun v. Fruchtman, 58 Wis.2d 569, 207 N.W.2d 297, as well as a crime, Scruggs v. State, Ind.App., 317 N.E.2d 807, 809. The two crimes differ from each other in that
battery requires physical contact of some sort (bodily injury or offensive touching), whereas
assault is committed without physical contact. In most jurisdictions, statutes have created aggravated assaults and batteries, punishable as felonies, and worded in various ways. See Battery."