State v. Rogers

1 Del. Cas. 86 Court Court of Quarter Sessions. English

Delivered by The charge to jury by Bassett, C. J.:

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STATE v. GEORGE ROGERS and ELIJAH SCOTT.

Court of Quarter Sessions.

April, 1796.

Wilson’s Red Book, 98.

Wilson for defendant.

Whenever one man touches another in an angry manner it is a battery. Every battery includes an assault, and there can be no battery without an assault. If you think the touching by defendants was done by them when angry, there is a battery.

One was acquitted.