Serious Assults

Question 1

Definitions

Wound
Injures
Maiming
Disfiguring

Answer 1

Wound involves breaking of the skin and flowing of blood, either externally or internally

To injure- means to cause actual bodily harm

Maiming- in practical terms involve mutilating, crippling, or disabling a part of the body so as to deprive the victim of the use of a limb or one of the senses (suggests need to be some degree of permanence)

To disfigure means to deform or deface, to mar or alter the figure or appearance of a person (can be temporary or permanent)