Superseded Effective July 1, 1998.

Title 21. Crimes and Punishments.

Chapter 20
§645. Assault, Battery, or Assault and Battery with Dangerous Weapon

Every person who, with intent to do bodily harm and without justifiable or excusable cause, commits any assault, battery, or assault and battery upon the person of another with any sharp or dangerous weapon, or who, without such cause, shoots at another, with any kind of firearm or air gun or other means whatever, with intent to injure any person, although without the intent to kill such person or to commit any felony, upon conviction is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding ten (10) years, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one (1) year.

Amended by Laws 1982, c. 173, § 1, emerg. eff. April 16, 1982.