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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: Last night
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Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 12:57:22 EDT
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> >Legally, assult involves touching another person.
> >If you don't touch them, you haven't assulted them.
> 
> You're confusing assault and battery.
> -- 
> Richard Mateosian
> {cbosgd,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!srm    nsc!srm@decwrl.ARPA

In California (and I presume most other states), if you threaten or menace
a person, even without touching them, it is assault.  If you actually
injury them, it is battery.