Montague v. Com.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming conviction under VA CODE ANN. § 18.2-57 and noting that “[ajssault and battery are common law crimes”
• affirming a defendant’s assault and battery against a law enforcement officer conviction when he tried “to prevent the officers from taking him into custody” by “pushing” and “striking [one officer] in the chest with an elbow”
• affirming a conviction for assault and battery of a law enforcement officer when the defendant tried “to prevent the officers from taking him into custody” by “push[ing]” and “strik[ing] [one officer] in the chest with an elbow”
• affirming a defendant’s conviction for assault and battery against a law enforcement officer when he tried “to prevent the police officers from taking him into custody” by pushing and “striking [one officer] in the chest with an elbow”
• “[T]he evidence was sufficient to convict [the defendant] ... of the crime of assault and battery....”
• “Battery is the actual infliction of corporal hurt on another that is done willfully or in anger.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).