Shannon v. Fortenberry

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing \misdemeanor battery is a lesser degree of the crime of severity level 4 felony aggravated battery\
• finding that simple battery is a lesser included offense of aggravated battery
• finding simple misdemeanor battery is a lesser degree of the crime of severity level 4 felony aggravated battery
• skip rule “not amenable to mechanical application; rather, it should be viewed as simply providing a route to harmlessness”
• “The courts duty to instruct on lesser included crimes is not foreclosed or excused just because the lesser included crime may be inconsistent with the defendants theory of defense.”
• simple batteiy instruction should have been given in aggravated batteiy case; juiy should decide how to classify evidence on manner in which defendant inflicted bodily harm, despite “I-did-not-hit-her” trial defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).