Offenses Against the Person

Question 1

Offenses Against the Person

Answer 1

Battery (Aggravates) Assault (Aggravated) Mayhem, Homicide

Question 2

Battery (General Intent Crime)

Answer 2

Unlawful application of force with person resulting in harmful or offensive touching. (NO INTENT REQUIRED)(NO DIRECT TOUCHING REQUIRED)(CAN BE DONE THROUGH CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE)

Question 3

Aggravated Battery

Answer 3

Battery with deadly weapon/intent to cause serious bodily injury, battery to child, woman or police officer

Question 4

Assault

Answer 4

Attempted Battery/Intentional creation other than by words resulting in a reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm or offensive contact.

Actual Touching = Battery

Question 5

Aggravated Assault

Answer 5

Assault with deadly weapon or Assault with intent to maim, rape or murder

Question 6

Mayhem

Answer 6

Dismemberment or disablement of a body part

Question 7

Homicide

Answer 7

Killing of a person with malice aforethought

Question 8

Malice Aforethought Exists If:

Answer 8

Intent to kill, Intent to cause serious bodily injury, reckless indifference to an unjustifiable risk to human life, intent to commit a felony

Question 9

Homicide (Causation)

Answer 9

Cause in Fact (but for), Proximate Cause (Natural and Probable Consequence of Defendant’s Actions, foreseeablility)

Question 10

Homicide Rule of Causation

Answer 10

Acts that hasten inevitable are still within causation,
Simultaneous acts of two or more people may be independently sufficient causes of single result.

Defendant will take victim as she finds them.