Rambo v. State

I concur in Judge Mitchell’s opinion and would point out that the general law on battery includes the following from 6 C.J.S. Assault and Battery sec. 70:

It is essential to the offense of battery or assault and battery that there be a touching of the person of the prosecutor, or of something so intimately associated with, or attached to, his person as to be regarded as a part thereof.

This touching, however, need not be in the form of a blow but may consist of any sort of contact; it may include every touching or laying hold, however slight, of another or his clothes in an angry, revengeful,…