Wilson’s Red Book, 98

STATE v. GEORGE ROGERS and ELIJAH SCOTT.

Court of Quarter Sessions of Delaware.
April, 1796.

The charge to jury by BASSETT, C. J.: 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.

Wilson for defendant.

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