Wilson’s Red Book, 98
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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