A Battery is an Assault where some force of any sort is used against another person directly or indirectly. We know, this is the standard way we think of an assault. Punching someone else in North Carolina is a battery and is a simple assault in North Carolina. Grabbing a person’s jacket when they’re wearing it is also an assault in North Carolina. This form of assault doesn’t require the person to be placed in any type of fear, but rather just requires force or some sort of offensive, non-permitted contact with another person either directly, hitting them, or indirectly, throwing a rock that hits the person.