· 4/15/1859
Scott v. Bogart
Citations
- 14 La. Ann. 261
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- holding the critical issue in offer-type assaults is whether the victim reasonably apprehended imminent bodily harm as compared to assaults consummated by a battery in which the critical issue is actual bodily harm
- although victim of assault by offer denied seeing any knife being wielded, the appellate court was not bound to accept this testimony as determinative of the reasonable apprehension question
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Judges: Buchanan, Merrick, Mkrkick, Srorrord
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