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On an indictment under section 18, the jury is open to convict under section 20 or section 47 if properly directed. [40] "Wounding" and "causing grievous bodily harm" are defined in the same way as they are in the crime of maliciously wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm.
Section 11 – Administering poison or wounding or causing grievous bodily harm with intent to murder. This section replaced section 2 of the Offences against the Person Act 1837 (7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 85). Section 12 – Destroying or damaging a building with gunpowder with intent to murder
Causing grievous bodily harm with intent Also referred to as "wounding with intent". This offence is created by section 18 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100). Other aggravated assault charges refer to assaults carried out against a specific target or with a specific intent: Assault with intent to rob
A man has been found guilty of killing a teenager but cleared of his murder. Jamie Meah, 18, was stabbed to death and a 16-year-old boy was seriously injured when they were dragged out of a taxi ...
an offence of making such a threat as is mentioned in subsection (3)(a) of section 1 of the Internationally Protected Persons Act 1978 and the following offence against a protected person within the meaning of that section, namely, an offence under section 2 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883 of causing an explosion likely to endanger life
R v Savage; R v Parmenter [1991] [1] were conjoined final domestic appeals in English criminal law confirming that the mens rea (level and type of guilty intent) of malicious wounding or the heavily twinned statutory offence of inflicting grievous bodily harm will in all but very exceptional cases include that for the lesser offence of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Section 16 (threats to kill); Section 18 (wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm); Section 20 (malicious wounding); Section 21 (attempting to choke, suffocate or strangle in order to commit or assist in committing an indictable offence); Section 22 (using chloroform etc to commit or assist in the committing of any indictable offence);
This offence is created by section 38 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 which provides: . Whosoever ... shall assault any person with intent to resist or prevent the lawful apprehension or detainer of himself or of any other person for any offence, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be imprisoned for any ...