Battery Laws and Penalties by State (2026)
How each state charges battery and the maximum penalties, from each state criminal code.
| State | Battery |
|---|---|
| Alabama | Alabama charges what many people call battery under its assault and harassment laws rather than under a crime named 'battery.' Causing physical injury is assault (assault in the third degree is a Class A misdemeanor). Striking, shoving, kicking or otherwise touching a person with intent to harass, annoy or alarm is the crime of harassment, a Class C misdemeanor (not more than three months in jail and a fine of not more than $500). When the victim is a family or household member or dating partner, the same conduct is charged as domestic violence. Ala. Code 1975 §§ 13A-6-22, 13A-11-8(a), 13A-5-7, 13A-5-12, 13A-6-132 |
| Alaska | Alaska has no separate crime called battery; harmful touching that causes physical injury is charged as assault (most often assault in the fourth degree, a Class A misdemeanor, for recklessly causing physical injury). Offensive touching that causes no injury can be charged as harassment: subjecting another person to offensive physical contact with intent to harass or annoy is harassment in the second degree, a Class B misdemeanor (up to 90 days in jail and a fine up to $2,000). Alaska also has a harassment in the first degree offense involving offensive contact, charged as a Class A misdemeanor. AS 11.41.230(a)(1), 11.61.120(a)(5), 11.61.118(a)(1); AS 12.55.135 |
| Arizona | Arizona has no separate battery crime; harmful or offensive touching is included in its assault statute. Knowingly touching another person with intent to injure, insult or provoke is assault, a class 3 misdemeanor (up to thirty days in jail and a fine up to $500), and causing physical injury is assault graded as a class 1 or class 2 misdemeanor depending on intent. A.R.S. §§ 13-1203(A)(3), (B); 13-707; 13-802 |
| Arkansas | Arkansas has a separate battery offense, graded in degrees by intent and injury. Battery in the third degree, the basic form (purposely causing physical injury, recklessly causing physical injury, negligently causing physical injury with a deadly weapon, or purposely drugging someone without consent), is a Class A misdemeanor (up to 1 year, up to $2,500); knowingly causing bodily fluids or waste to contact a first responder is also a Class A misdemeanor, with a $2,500 fine and a mandatory 30 days in jail. Battery in the second degree, a Class D felony (up to 6 years), covers injuries such as recklessly injuring a child under four and injuries to certain protected victims, and is a Class C felony when committed with a motor vehicle or motor boat. Battery in the first degree, generally causing serious physical injury, is a Class B felony (5 to 20 years, up to $15,000), and a Class Y felony (10 to 40 years or life) when the victim is four or younger, a law enforcement officer on duty, or a correctional facility employee, or when the person purposely causes permanent disfigurement. Ark. Code §§ 5-13-203(a), (b); 5-13-202; 5-13-201; 5-4-401; 5-4-201 |
| California | California has a separate battery crime: any willful and unlawful use of force or violence on another person. The slightest touching can be enough if done in a rude or angry way, including indirectly through an object, and no pain or injury is required. Simple battery is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 6 months in county jail and/or a fine of up to $2,000. Battery that causes serious bodily injury can be charged as a misdemeanor or felony: up to 1 year in county jail, or 2, 3 or 4 years under Penal Code § 1170(h). Cal. Penal Code §§ 242, 243(a), (d); CALCRIM No. 960 |
| Colorado | Colorado has no separate crime called battery. Causing bodily injury is charged as assault (most often assault in the third degree, a class 1 misdemeanor). Offensive touching without injury is covered by the harassment statute: striking, shoving, kicking or otherwise touching a person or subjecting them to physical contact with intent to harass, annoy or alarm is harassment. The harassment statute lists this physical-contact form (along with following someone in public, and any harassment motivated by bias) as a class 1 misdemeanor (up to 364 days in jail and a fine up to $1,000). C.R.S. §§ 18-3-204; 18-9-111(1)(a), (2) |
| Connecticut | Connecticut has no separate crime called battery. Unwanted physical contact that causes injury is charged under the assault statutes, graded by degree from assault in the third degree (Class A misdemeanor) up to assault in the first degree (Class B felony). There is no separate domestic battery offense; see domestic violence. Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 53a-59, 53a-60, 53a-61 |
| Delaware | Delaware has no crime called battery; unwanted contact is called offensive touching. Intentionally touching another person, with the body or an object, knowing it is likely to cause offense or alarm is offensive touching, an unclassified misdemeanor (up to 30 days and a $575 fine). It is a Class A misdemeanor (up to 1 year) when the victim is an on-duty police officer, health-care or nursing home worker, emergency medical worker, firefighter or correctional officer, or when the person strikes someone with saliva, urine, feces or other bodily fluid. Touching that causes physical injury is charged as assault. 11 Del. C. §§ 601, 4206 |
| District of Columbia | The District of Columbia has no separate battery crime. Unwanted harmful or offensive contact is charged as assault under D.C. Code § 22-404 (up to 180 days, or up to 3 years with significant bodily injury) or as aggravated assault under § 22-404.01. There is no separate domestic battery offense; see domestic violence. D.C. Code §§ 22-404, 22-404.01 |
| Florida | Florida has a separate battery offense: actually and intentionally touching or striking someone against their will, or intentionally causing bodily harm. Battery is a first-degree misdemeanor, punishable by up to 1 year in jail and a $1,000 fine. A second battery by someone with one prior conviction for battery, aggravated battery, felony battery or violently resisting an officer is a third-degree felony (up to 5 years), and so is felony battery, a touching or striking that causes great bodily harm, permanent disability or permanent disfigurement. Aggravated battery, intentionally or knowingly causing great bodily harm, permanent disability or disfigurement, using a deadly weapon, or battering a person the offender knew or should have known was pregnant, is a second-degree felony (up to 15 years and $10,000). Fla. Stat. §§ 784.03, 784.041(1), 784.045, 775.082, 775.083 |
| Georgia | Georgia has three battery offenses separate from assault. Simple battery is intentional physical contact 'of an insulting or provoking nature' or intentionally causing physical harm; it is a misdemeanor, or a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature when the victim is 65 or older, pregnant, a police/correction/detention officer on duty, a sports official, a public school employee, a household member, or when it happens on public transit. Battery is intentionally causing 'substantial physical harm or visible bodily harm' (such as blackened eyes or substantial bruises) and is a misdemeanor in its basic form. Aggravated battery is maliciously causing bodily harm by depriving someone of a body part, making a body part useless, or seriously disfiguring them; it carries 'not less than one nor more than 20 years.' O.C.G.A. §§ 16-5-23; 16-5-23.1(a), (c); 16-5-24(a), (b) |
| Hawaii | Hawaii has no crime called battery. Offensive touching without injury, such as striking, shoving or kicking someone with intent to harass, annoy or alarm, is harassment, a petty misdemeanor (up to 30 days and $1,000). Touching that causes bodily injury is charged as assault in the first, second or third degree. Offensive contact with a family or household member is covered by the abuse of family or household members statute; see domestic violence. Haw. Rev. Stat. §§ 711-1106(1)(a), (2); 707-712 |
| Idaho | Idaho has a separate battery offense: any willful and unlawful use of force or violence on another person, actual and intentional unlawful touching or striking against the person's will, or unlawfully and intentionally causing bodily harm. Battery is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine up to $1,000, up to six months in county jail, or both (up to one year in jail if the person knew the victim was pregnant). Aggravated battery, a felony punishable by up to fifteen (15) years in state prison, is battery that causes great bodily harm, permanent disability or permanent disfigurement, or is committed with a deadly weapon, with acid or caustic chemicals, or with poison. Idaho Code §§ 18-903, 18-904, 18-907, 18-908 |
| Illinois | Illinois has a separate crime of battery: knowingly and without legal justification causing bodily harm to someone, or making physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature. Battery is a Class A misdemeanor (less than one year in jail and a fine up to $2,500). It becomes aggravated battery, generally a Class 3 felony (2 to 5 years), when it causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or disfigurement, involves strangling, or targets protected victims or places listed in the statute. Some forms are more serious: for example, great bodily harm to a person 60 or older is a Class 2 felony, great bodily harm to an on-duty peace officer or firefighter is a Class 1 felony, and strangling is a Class 1 felony if a dangerous instrument was used, great bodily harm resulted, or the person has a prior strangulation conviction. 720 ILCS 5/12-3; 720 ILCS 5/12-3.05(a), (h); 730 ILCS 5/5-4.5-55, -40, -35, -30 |
| Indiana | Battery is knowingly or intentionally touching another person in a rude, insolent or angry manner, a Class B misdemeanor. It is a Class A misdemeanor when it results in bodily injury, and a Level 6 felony (6 months to 2.5 years) when committed by a person 18 or older against a child under 14. Knowingly or intentionally inflicting injury that creates a substantial risk of death is aggravated battery, a Level 3 felony. Ind. Code §§ 35-42-2-1(c)(1), (d), (e)(3); 35-42-2-1.5, as quoted in Culvahouse v. State, No. 25A-CR-1437 (Ind. Ct. App. Dec. 11, 2025) (mem.), Anders v. State, No. 25A-CR-3171 (Ind. Ct. App. June 22, 2026), and McCaster v. State, No. 25A-CR-2788 (Ind. Ct. App. May 22, 2026) (mem.) |
| Iowa | Iowa has no separate crime called battery. Its assault statute already covers an act intended to result in physical contact that will be insulting or offensive, or intended to cause pain or injury, so an unwanted touching or striking is charged as assault and graded under the assault penalty section. Assault against a family or household member is charged as domestic abuse assault (see domestic violence). Iowa Code §§ 708.1(2)(a), 708.2 (Iowa Code 2026) |
| Kansas | Kansas has a separate battery offense: knowingly or recklessly causing bodily harm to another person, or knowingly making physical contact with someone in a rude, insulting or angry manner. Battery is a class B person misdemeanor (up to six months in jail and a fine up to $1,000). Aggravated battery is a felony ranging from severity level 8 to severity level 4: knowingly causing great bodily harm or disfigurement is severity level 4; knowingly causing bodily harm (or rude contact) with a deadly weapon or in a way that could cause great bodily harm, disfigurement or death is severity level 7; recklessly causing great bodily harm or disfigurement is severity level 5. Battery against an on-duty law enforcement officer, school employee or healthcare provider is graded higher. K.S.A. 21-5413(a), (b), (h); 21-6602; 21-6611 |
| Kentucky | Kentucky has no separate crime called battery. Causing physical injury is charged as assault (most often fourth-degree assault, a Class A misdemeanor). Offensive physical contact without injury, such as striking, shoving or kicking someone with intent to harass, annoy or alarm, is charged as harassment, which is a Class B misdemeanor when it involves physical contact (up to 90 days in jail and a $250 fine). KRS 508.030; 525.070(1)(a), (2)(b); 532.090; 534.040 |
| Louisiana | Louisiana has a separate battery offense: intentionally using force or violence on another person (or giving them a poison or harmful substance). Simple battery, without the victim's consent, carries a fine of not more than $1,000, up to six months, or both (up to $2,000 and two years, with or without hard labor, when the victim is an employee of a regulated establishment). Battery with a dangerous weapon is aggravated battery, a felony: a fine of not more than $5,000, up to 10 years with or without hard labor, or both. Intentionally causing serious bodily injury is second degree battery: a fine of not more than $2,000, up to eight years with or without hard labor, or both. La. R.S. 14:33; R.S. 14:35(B); R.S. 14:34(B); R.S. 14:34.1(C) |
| Maine | Maine has no separate battery crime. Its assault statute covers both causing bodily injury and causing 'offensive physical contact,' so an unwanted touching or striking is charged as assault, a Class D crime (less than one year in jail and a fine up to $2,000). Domestic battery is likewise charged as domestic violence assault. 17-A M.R.S. §§ 207(1)(A), 207-A, 1604(1) |
| Maryland | Maryland has no separate battery statute. By law, 'assault' means the crimes of assault, battery, and assault and battery, which keep their judicially determined (common-law) meanings, so an unwanted touching or striking is charged as second-degree assault, a misdemeanor punishable by up to 10 years, a fine up to $2,500, or both. Md. Code, Crim. Law §§ 3-201(b), 3-203(b) |
| Massachusetts | Massachusetts treats battery together with assault in one statute: 'assault or assault and battery' is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 2 1/2 years in a house of correction or a fine up to $1,000. The same statute raises it to a felony (up to 5 years in state prison) for serious bodily injury, a known-pregnant victim, or a victim protected by a court order. Assault and battery on a family or household member is a separate offense (see domestic violence). G.L. c. 265, §§ 13A, 13M |
| Michigan | Michigan does not have a separate battery statute; 'assault or an assault and battery' is charged under one section as a misdemeanor punishable by up to 93 days, a fine up to $500, or both (fine up to $1,000 if the victim is a health professional or medical volunteer on duty). Domestic assault and battery is charged under the same section with its own repeat-offense penalties. MCL 750.81(1)-(5) |
| Minnesota | Minnesota has no separate battery offense. Its assault statutes cover both trying to make someone fear harm and intentionally inflicting or attempting to inflict bodily harm, so a battery is charged as fifth-degree assault (a misdemeanor) or a higher degree of assault depending on the injury or weapon. Minn. Stat. § 609.224, subd. 1 |
| Mississippi | Mississippi folds battery into assault: causing bodily injury to another is simple assault, and causing serious bodily injury or injury with a deadly weapon is aggravated assault, under § 97-3-7; against a family or household member it is domestic violence under § 97-3-7(3)-(4). A separate felony covers abuse or battery of a child: for example, throwing, kicking, biting or cutting a child that causes bodily harm is punished by 2 to 10 years, and the most serious forms (such as burning, strangling, poisoning or using a deadly weapon on a child) by not less than five years and up to life (§ 97-5-39(2)). Miss. Code Ann. §§ 97-3-7, 97-5-39(2) |
| Missouri | Missouri has no separate crime called battery. Offensive or harmful touching is charged as assault: knowingly causing physical contact with another person knowing they will regard it as offensive or provocative is assault in the fourth degree, a class C misdemeanor (up to fifteen days in jail and a $750 fine), or a class A misdemeanor (up to one year and $2,000) if the victim is a 'special victim'. Contact that causes physical injury is charged as a higher degree of assault (see assault). RSMo § 565.056.1(6), .3 (version effective 1/1/2017); § 558.011 |
| Montana | Montana has no separate battery crime. Unwanted touching is part of the assault statute: purposely or knowingly making physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature with any individual is assault, a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $500, up to 6 months in county jail, or both. MCA § 45-5-201(1)(c), (2) |
| Nebraska | Nebraska has no separate battery crime. Causing bodily injury is charged as assault (third degree is intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causing bodily injury, a Class I misdemeanor), and the assault statute does not list mere offensive touching without injury as a separate offense. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 28-310 |
| Nevada | Nevada has a separate battery crime: any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon another person. Battery without a deadly weapon and without substantial bodily harm is a misdemeanor (up to 6 months and $1,000). Battery that causes substantial bodily harm or is committed by strangulation is a category C felony (1 to 5 years). Battery with a deadly weapon is a category B felony punishable by 2 to 10 years and a fine up to $10,000, or 2 to 15 years if it causes substantial bodily harm or is committed by strangulation. Battery on certain protected victims such as officers carries higher grades (NRS 200.481(2)(c)-(d)). NRS 200.481(1)(a), (2); NRS 193.130 |
| New Hampshire | New Hampshire has no separate battery crime. Offensive or harmful touching is part of simple assault: purposely or knowingly causing bodily injury or 'unprivileged physical contact' to another is simple assault, a misdemeanor (a violation if in a mutually agreed fight). RSA 631:2-a |
| New Jersey | New Jersey has no separate crime called battery. Unwanted physical contact that causes bodily injury is charged as simple or aggravated assault under § 2C:12-1, and offensive touching without injury (striking, kicking, shoving or other offensive touching done with purpose to harass) is charged as harassment, a petty disorderly persons offense (§ 2C:33-4). There is no separate domestic battery offense; see domestic violence. N.J.S. 2C:12-1; N.J.S. 2C:33-4 |
| New Mexico | New Mexico has a separate battery offense: the unlawful, intentional touching or application of force to another person, done in a rude, insolent or angry manner. Simple battery is a petty misdemeanor (up to six months in the county jail, a fine of up to $500, or both, § 31-19-1(B)) (§ 30-3-4). Aggravated battery is an unlawful touching or application of force with intent to injure; it is a misdemeanor if it causes painful temporary disfigurement or temporary loss or impairment of a body member or organ, and a third degree felony (basic sentence three years, fine up to $5,000, § 31-18-15) if it inflicts great bodily harm, is done with a deadly weapon, or is done in any manner whereby great bodily harm or death can be inflicted (§ 30-3-5). Battery against a household member is a separate offense (see domestic violence). NMSA 1978, §§ 30-3-4, 30-3-5; §§ 31-18-15, 31-19-1 |
| New York | New York has no crime called battery; injuring someone is charged as assault (Penal Law article 120). An offensive touching without injury, such as striking, shoving or kicking someone (or attempting or threatening to) with intent to harass, annoy or alarm, is harassment in the second degree, which is a violation, not a crime (up to 15 days in jail and a $250 fine). Physical contact made with intent to harass that causes physical injury to the person or a family or household member is aggravated harassment in the second degree, a class A misdemeanor. N.Y. Penal Law §§ 240.26(1), 240.30(4), 70.15(4), 80.05(4) |
| North Carolina | North Carolina has no separate battery statute; assault and battery are charged together under the same assault law. Simple assault and battery is a Class 2 misdemeanor, and the same aggravating factors (serious injury, deadly weapon, protected victims) raise assault and battery to a Class A1 misdemeanor or a felony. Assault and battery on a sports official during or right after a sports event is a Class 1 misdemeanor. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-33(a)-(c) |
| North Dakota | North Dakota has no separate battery offense. Physically injuring another person is charged under the assault statutes: simple assault (bodily injury, a class B misdemeanor), assault (substantial bodily injury, a class A misdemeanor) and aggravated assault (serious bodily injury or use of a dangerous weapon, a class C or B felony). N.D.C.C. §§ 12.1-17-01, 12.1-17-01.1, 12.1-17-02 |
| Ohio | Ohio has no separate battery offense; causing or attempting to cause physical harm to another person is charged as assault (a misdemeanor of the first degree), and more serious injuries or use of a deadly weapon are charged as felonious or aggravated assault. R.C. 2903.13, 2903.11, 2903.12 |
| Oklahoma | Oklahoma defines battery separately: "any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another." In practice the offense is charged and punished as "assault and battery": up to six (6) months in county jail, a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or both. It becomes a felony when a sharp or dangerous weapon is used (Class B4, up to ten (10) years) or when it is aggravated by great bodily injury or a vulnerable victim (Class B5, up to five (5) years). Domestic battery is charged as "domestic abuse" (see domestic violence). 21 O.S. §§ 642, 644(B)-(C), 645, 646, 647 |
| Oregon | Oregon has no separate crime called battery; causing physical injury is charged as assault (ORS 163.160-163.185). An unwanted offensive touching that causes no injury is charged as harassment: intentionally harassing or annoying another person by subjecting them to offensive physical contact. Harassment is a Class B misdemeanor (up to 6 months in jail and a fine up to $2,500). It becomes a Class A misdemeanor when the contact is touching the sexual or other intimate parts of the other person, or when the victim is a family or household member and a minor child witnesses it. ORS 166.065(1)(a), (3), (4)(a); 161.615 |
| Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania has no separate battery crime; causing or attempting to cause bodily injury is simple or aggravated assault (18 Pa.C.S. §§ 2701, 2702). Touching someone without injury, such as striking, shoving or kicking, is charged as harassment when done with intent to harass, annoy or alarm the other person by subjecting them to physical contact. That form of harassment is a summary offense (up to 90 days and $300). 18 Pa.C.S. §§ 2701, 2709(a)(1), (c); 1101, 1105 |
| Rhode Island | Rhode Island combines assault and battery in the same statutes: the simple assault statute covers anyone who makes "an assault or battery or both," a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in prison, a fine up to $1,000, or both. A battery with a dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury is felony assault (up to twenty (20) years if serious bodily injury results). There is also a separate statute for battery caused by criminal negligence. R.I. Gen. Laws §§ 11-5-3, 11-5-2, 11-5-2.2 |
| South Carolina | South Carolina does not have a separate battery offense; assault and battery are charged together as degrees of "assault and battery" (third degree, second degree, first degree, and high and aggravated nature). Unlawfully injuring another person is assault and battery in the third degree, a misdemeanor punishable by a fine up to $500, up to thirty days, or both, and the degree rises with the level of injury (moderate bodily injury, great bodily injury) or the circumstances. S.C. Code § 16-3-600 |
| South Dakota | South Dakota has no separate battery offense; physical attacks that cause or attempt bodily injury are charged as simple assault (a Class 1 misdemeanor) or aggravated assault (a Class 3 felony) under the assault statutes. SDCL 22-18-1, 22-18-1.1 |
| Tennessee | Tennessee has no separate crime called battery; unwanted physical contact is charged as assault. Knowingly causing physical contact that a reasonable person would regard as extremely offensive or provocative is a Class B misdemeanor (up to 6 months and/or $500), and intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causing bodily injury is a Class A misdemeanor punishable by incarceration and a fine of up to $15,000. Assaults against a family or household member are charged as domestic assault. Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 39-13-101(a)(1), (a)(3), (b)(1)(A), (b)(1)(C); 39-13-111(b); 40-35-111(e) |
| Texas | Texas has no separate battery crime; physical attacks are charged as assault. Intentionally or knowingly causing physical contact that the person knows or should reasonably believe the other will find offensive or provocative is a form of assault and a Class C misdemeanor (fine up to $500), raised to a Class A misdemeanor when committed against an elderly or disabled individual. Causing bodily injury is Class A misdemeanor assault. Tex. Penal Code §§ 22.01(a)(1), (a)(3), (b), (c)(1); 12.21, 12.23 |
| Utah | Utah has no separate battery crime. Unlawful force or violence that causes, or creates a substantial risk of, bodily injury is charged as assault, a class B misdemeanor (class A if it causes substantial bodily injury or the victim is known to be pregnant). Violence against a cohabitant (such as a spouse, partner or household member) is charged as a domestic violence offense with enhanced penalties for repeat offenders. Utah Code §§ 76-5-102, 77-36-1.1 |
| Vermont | Vermont has no separate battery crime; causing or attempting to cause bodily injury is charged as simple assault (up to one year in prison, a fine up to $1,000, or both). Injuring a family or household member is charged as domestic assault. 13 V.S.A. §§ 1023, 1042 |
| Virginia | Virginia does not have a stand-alone battery statute; the offense is charged as assault and battery, a common-law crime whose penalty is set in the same section as assault. Simple assault and battery is a Class 1 misdemeanor (up to 12 months in jail and/or a fine up to $2,500), and the felony versions are the same as for assault (Class 6 felony against police, firefighters, judges and similar officials, or when a bias-motivated battery causes bodily injury). Assault and battery against a family or household member is a separate offense (see domestic violence). Va. Code §§ 18.2-57, 18.2-57.2, 18.2-11 |
| Washington | Washington has no separate battery offense. Unwanted touching or striking is charged under the assault statutes (assault in the first through fourth degrees); the lowest level, assault in the fourth degree, is a gross misdemeanor punishable by up to 364 days in jail, a fine up to $5,000, or both. There is no separate domestic battery crime; domestic cases are charged as assault with a domestic violence designation. RCW 9A.36.041, 9A.20.021, 10.99.020 |
| West Virginia | West Virginia has a separate battery offense: unlawfully and intentionally making physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature, or intentionally causing physical harm. It is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 12 months in jail, a fine of up to $500, or both. A repeat assault or battery against a spouse, partner, co-parent, cohabitant or certain relatives within 10 years of a qualifying prior conviction is punished under the domestic violence penalties of § 61-2-28. W. Va. Code § 61-2-9(c), (d) |
| Wisconsin | Battery is causing bodily harm to another by an act done with intent to cause bodily harm, without the person's consent; it is a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to 9 months in jail, a fine up to $10,000, or both. It becomes a Class I felony (up to 3 years 6 months) for substantial bodily harm, or when committed against the petitioner by someone subject to a domestic abuse or harassment injunction; it is a Class H felony (up to 6 years) for great bodily harm, for battery by prisoners, or for battery to certain protected people such as judges, prosecutors, law enforcement officers, witnesses and jurors in the circumstances the statute lists; and a Class E felony (up to 15 years) when great bodily harm was intended. Wis. Stat. §§ 940.60, 940.61, 940.62, 939.50(3), 939.51(3) |
| Wyoming | Wyoming has a separate battery offense: intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causing bodily injury to another person by use of physical force. Battery is a misdemeanor punishable by up to six (6) months in jail, a fine of not more than $750, or both, and probation may last up to one year. A lesser offense, unlawful contact, covers touching someone in a rude, insolent or angry manner without enough force to cause injury, or recklessly causing bodily injury; it carries the same maximum (six months, $750, or both). Battery causing injury with a deadly weapon is charged as aggravated assault and battery, a felony with up to ten (10) years. W.S. 6-2-501(b), (d), (g), (h); 6-2-502 |
General legal information, not legal advice. Laws change and local rules can differ; check the linked official source or talk to a lawyer about your situation.