Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mmintl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Newsgroups: net.women,net.legal Subject: Re: charges and convictions Message-ID: <582@mmintl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 18:16:50 EDT Article-I.D.: mmintl.582 Posted: Fri Aug 9 18:16:50 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 06:29:00 EDT References: <630@ttidcc.UUCP> <631@ttidcc.UUCP> <505@h-sc1.UUCP> Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT Lines: 13 Xref: linus net.women:6420 net.legal:1651 Summary: Battery is a lesser charge In article <505@h-sc1.UUCP> desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins) writes: > >Why would battery not be a lesser charge than rape? Rape seems awfully >serious to me (yes, so does battery), especially for repeat offenders >(certainly more comparable to, say, a murder charge than battery). Or >do I misunderstand the legal meaning of the term "battery"? > I think if anything you overestimate the seriousness of battery. As I understand it, any violence directed against another person is battery. E.g., punching someone. A crime yes, but not necessarily a very serious crime.