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Battery and Intent in Macon Georgia
Battery is a general intent offense. This means that the suspect need not intend the specific harm that will result from the unwanted contact, but only to commit an act of unwanted contact. This also means that gross negligence and even recklessness may have the necessary intent to establish a battery.
The doctrine of transferred intent is also applicable. If one person intends to strike another, but the other moves out of the way to prevent being struck, causing the blow to strike a third person, both an assault against the second person and a battery against the third person have occurred.
This is an important difference between a battery and an assault. A battery needs real contact. An assault is, actually an incomplete battery; a person commits an assault when he or she intentionally puts a person in apprehension of an impending battery. although, if a person intended only an assault to cause an apprehension of a likely battery, and offensive contact actually occurs, the person has committed a battery as well as an assault.
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