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The crime of wounding with intent is created by section 18 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861. It reads, since amended, as: "Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously by any means whatsoever wound or cause any grievous bodily harm to any person... with intent...
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
Administering poison, contrary to section 24 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 [7] Unlawful wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm, contrary to section 20 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861; Wounding or causing grievous bodily harm with intent, contrary to section 18 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861
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
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);
Defence counsel submitted that Bailey had neither the specific intent to cause grievous bodily harm for the purpose of Section 18 nor the general intent for an alternative verdict of unlawful wounding; however, the Recorder followed the decision in R v Quick and directed the jury that self-induced incapacity did not provide a defence, on the ...
Section 18 requires intent to cause wounding or grievous bodily harm, and its violation is a felony (only triable by the Crown Court). Section 20 (its lesser included component) does not entail such intent; it is a serious misdemeanor (triable by Magistrates or the Crown Court).