What is the legal defention of simple assault?
Full Question:
What is the legal defention of simple assault? And if a person runs another person over intentionally with his or her moter vechilce what laws would that person be braking
10/05/2007 |
Category: Courts ยป Legal Defini... |
State: Pennsylvania |
#9707
Answer:
The applicable Pennsylvania statutes are as follows:
18 Pa.C.S.A. § 2701. Simple assault
(a) Offense defined. — A person is guilty of assault if he:
(1) attempts to cause or intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causes
bodily injury to another;
(2) negligently causes bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon;
(3) attempts by physical menace to put another in fear of imminent
serious bodily injury; or
(4) conceals or attempts to conceal a hypodermic needle on his person
and intentionally or knowingly penetrates a law enforcement officer or an
officer or an employee of a correctional institution, county jail or
prison, detention facility or mental hospital during the course of an
arrest or any search of the person.
(b) Grading. — Simple assault is a misdemeanor of the second
degree unless committed:
(1) in a fight or scuffle entered into by mutual consent, in which case
it is a misdemeanor of the third degree; or
(2) against a child under 12 years of age by an adult 21 years of age
or older, in which case it is a misdemeanor of the first degree.
