Case Name: STATE v. GEORGE ROGERS and ELIJAH SCOTT
Court: Delaware Court of Quarter Sessions
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1796-04
Citations: 1 Del. Cas. 86
Docket Number: 
Parties: STATE v. GEORGE ROGERS and ELIJAH SCOTT.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 86–86

Head Matter:
STATE v. GEORGE ROGERS and ELIJAH SCOTT.
Court of Quarter Sessions.
April, 1796.
Wilson’s Red Book, 98.
Wilson for defendant.

Opinion:
The charge to jury by Bassett, C. J.:
Whenever one man touches another in an angry manner it is a battery. Every battery includes an assault, and there can be no battery without an assault. If you think the touching by defendants was done by them when angry, there is a battery.
One was acquitted.