
There could be different forms of assault like waving a weapon, pointing a gun at any person, verbally threatening a person of committing a physical harm in future, use of any potential weapon to threaten a person like bat of baseball. In short, a person who is charged by assault has not committed a physical harm to victim.

The charge of assault is only applied, if the victim has only been threatened not touched by criminal. It depends upon type of crime, whether it is just threat or having evidence of physical contact.Īssault is a threat of harm that causes fear of physical hurt in a victim. Some times, both charges leveled simultaneously against a person and sometimes separately.

Assault is the threat of violence while battery is physical violence. Assault and Battery are two different criminal charges that can be put against guilty person.
