2. Other Crimes against The Person Flashcards
What is Simple Battery in Georgia?
Under Georgia law, simple battery is either:
1. Intentionally making physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature with the person of another; or
2. intentionally causing physical harm to another.
What is the separate classification of battery under Georgia?
Substantial physical harm or visible bodily harm is intentionally caused.
What is Family Violence battery in Georgia?
Battery committed upon:
1. past or present spouses
2. parents of the same child
3. foster parents or foster children
4. persons currently or formally living in the same household.
What is Aggravated Battery in Georgia?
Under Georgia law, aggravated battery is committed when someone:
1. Intentionally causes severe injury to another;
2. resulting in loss or impairment of a body part, or serious disfigurement.
What is Simple Assault in Georgia?
Georgia’s Simple assault statute requires either:
1. an attempt to commit a violent injury to the person of another; or
2. an act that puts another in reasonable apprehension of immediately receiving a violent injury.
What is Aggravated Assault in Georgia?
Aggravated assault under Georgia law requires:
1. assaulting with intent to murder, rape, or rob;
2. using a deadly weapon or object likely to cause serious injury; or
3. firing a gun from a vehicle at a person.
What is Kidnapping in Georgia?
Under Georgia law, Kidnapping is:
1. Abducting or stealing away of any person without lawful authority; and
2. holding them against their will.
What is Aggravated Kidnapping in Georgia?
Although not specifically called aggravated kidnapping in Georgia, the punishment is enhanced to life imprisonment when the kidnapping is:
- for ransom; or
- the victim receives bodily injury.
What is Rape in Georgia?
The carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will or carnal knowledge with a female who is less than 10 years old.
Rape laws in Georgia are strict and emphasize the lack of consent.
What is Statutory Rape in Georgia?
Recognized when someone engages in sexual intercourse with someone under the age of 16 and the perpetrator is NOT the spouse.
Statutory rape laws are designed to protect minors from exploitation.
What is Incest in Georgia?
Engaging in sexual intercourse with someone he knows he is related to by blood or marriage as follows:
* father and daughter or stepdaughter
* mother and son or stepson
* brother and sister of whole or half-blood
* grandparent and grandchild
* aunt and nephew
* uncle and niece.
Incest laws are in place to prevent sexual relationships between close relatives.
