Court Opinion

ID: 9819713
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 06:32:17.794268+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:27:23.827148
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE GALLAGHER, specially concurring: Throughout the ages, human beings have devised many and varied means of inflicting harm upon one another. And just as the means vary, so does the degree of harm. Before one can truly call bodily harm “great,” it should be more severe than what one might do to a finger with a kitchen knife while cutting vegetables. “Great,” according to Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, means “remarkable in magnitude, power, intensity, degree, or effectiveness.” Webster’s Third New International Dictionary 994 (1993). Thus, I concur that the injury suffered here did not rise to great bodily harm.