...meets unanimous acceptance. The more generally received definition is that of Hawkins,4 to wit : " An attempt or offer with force and violence to do a corporal hurt to another." We have already seen5 that to constitute an attempt there must be some overt act in part execution...

...constitute such an assault as will justify moderate and reasonable violence in self-defence, there must be an attempt or offer with force and violence to do a corporal hurt to another, as by striking him with or without a weapon, or presenting a gun at him, at such a distance to which the gun will...

...express, and that his belief would not affect his criminality, (z) Assault and battery. — An assault is an attempt or offer with force and violence to do a corporal hurt to another, and a battery, which is the attempt executed, includes an assault, (a) An assault is described as a...

...тэге proper!}' to the question of evidence. ASSAULT AND BATTERY. ASSAULT DEFINED. — An assault is: "An attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another.' (Hawkins.) "Any unlawful physical force, partly or fully put in motion, creating a reasonable apprehension...

...A complaint against a person to compel him to find sureties to keep the peace. Assault and Battery. An attempt or offer, with force and violence to do a corporal hurt to another is an assault an injury actually done uO the person of another in an angry, revengeful, or insolent...

...— Jacob. Assault [fr. salire, Lat., to leap ; saillir, nssailler, Fr., to assail ; insultus, Lat.], an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do...imply a hitting or blow ; because in trespass for assaiilt and battery, a person may be found guilty of the assault, but not guilty of the battery. But...

...— Jacob. Assault [fr. satire, Lat., to leap ; sailler, assailler, Fr., to assail ; insultus, Lat.], an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do...always necessarily imply a hitting or blow ; because in trespaas for assault and battery, a person may be found guilty of the assault, but not guilty of the...

...an assault on B ? This must Ve answered, as I think, in the negative. Hau'kins defines an assault as an attempt or offer with force and violence to do a corporal hurt to another, with or without a weapon, though the party striking misses his aim, — so drawing a sword, or any...

...are believed to linger still among them. ASSAULT and BATTERY. An assault has been commonly defined " an attempt or offer with force and violence to do a corporal hurt to another." Thus presenting a gun at a person within the distance to which it will carry, throwing a stone or other...

...Rape, Cent. Dig. § 14; Dec. Dig. i 16.*] 6. ASSAULT AND BATTEET (J 48*)— "ASSAULT." An "assault" is an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal injury to another, whether from malice or wantonness, under such circumstances as denote a present...