Second Degree Assault is a Class B felony punishable by 3.5 to 7 years in the NH State Prison. There are a number of specific alternating elements that the State has the burden to prove beyond a reasonable doubt if one is charged. The most common elements for the State to prove are: 1. Knowingly or Recklessly causes serious bodily injury to another. 2. Intentionally assaults another and thereby recklessly inflicts substantial bodily harm.1. 3. Intentionally and unlawfully causes substantial bodily harm to an unborn quick child by intentionally and unlawfully inflicting any injury upon the mother of such child. 4. Assaults another with a deadly weapon. 5. With intent to inflict bodily harm, administers to or causes to be taken by another, poison or any other destructive or noxious substance. 6. With intent to commit a felony, assaults another. 7. Knowingly inflicts bodily harm which by design causes such pain or agony as to be the equivalent of that produced by torture. 8. Assaults another by strangulation or suffocation.