State v. Thompson

CLARK, Judge.

In his final mandate to the jury the trial judge charged the jury to return a verdict of guilty of assault on a female if it found from the evidence and beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant “grabbed or took Vivian Thompson by the arm in such a fashion and in such a manner as to put her in fear of bodily harm” and that she was a female person and he, the defendant, was a male person. Defendant assigns this portion of the charge as error and contends that it fails to include the elements of assault in that the word “immediate” did not precede the words “bodily harm.”

The Supreme…