Case Name: STATE OF OREGON, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. JASON ROBERT GRANT, Defendant-Appellant
Court: Oregon Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Decision Date: 2016-12-07
Citations: 282 Or. App. 719
Docket Number: 12CR2438MI; A159611
Parties: STATE OF OREGON, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. JASON ROBERT GRANT, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before Armstrong, Presiding Judge, and Tookey, Judge, and Shorr, Judge.
Reporter: Oregon Reports, Court of Appeals
Volume: 282
Pages: 719–720

Head Matter:
Submitted September 2,
reversed December 7, 2016
STATE OF OREGON, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. JASON ROBERT GRANT, Defendant-Appellant.
Douglas County Circuit Court
12CR2438MI; A159611
385 P3d 1232
Ernest G. Lannet, Chief Defender, and Laura E. Coffin, Deputy Public Defender, Criminal Appellate Section, Office of Public Defense Services, filed the brief for appellant.
Ellen F. Rosenblum, Attorney General, Benjamin Gutman, Solicitor General, and Jordan R. Silk, Assistant Attorney General, filed the brief for respondent.
Before Armstrong, Presiding Judge, and Tookey, Judge, and Shorr, Judge.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM
Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction on one count of fourth-degree assault. In his second assignment of error, defendant argues that the trial court erred in denying his motion for judgment of acquittal because the evidence was legally insufficient to show that defendant caused the complainant a "physical injury" as defined in ORS 161.015(7). The state concedes error on that assignment. We agree, accept the state's concession, and reverse. Because we reverse defendant's conviction on that basis, we do not address his other assignments of error.
As relevant here, ORS 163.160 provides:
"(1) A person commits the crime of assault in the fourth degree if the person:
"(a) Intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causes physical injury to another!.]"
"Physical injury" is defined by statute as "impairment of physical condition or substantial pain." ORS 161.015(7).
In this case, the trial court based its conviction of defendant on his causing the complainant "impairment of physical condition." We have determined that an "impairment of physical condition" means "harm to the body that results in a reduction in one's ability to use the body or a bodily organ for less than a protracted period of time." State v. Higgins, 165 Or App 442, 446-47, 998 P2d 222 (2000). The state concedes that the evidence in this case is legally insufficient to support a finding of "physical injury" under the case law. We agree. The state presented no evidence that defendant caused the complainant a diminishment in the ability to use a body part or a disruption in the normal functioning of a bodily organ. Accordingly, we accept the state's concession and reverse defendant's judgment of conviction for fourth-degree assault.
Reversed.