Second degree assault on family or household member
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Davis v. State (2015)
Most recently applied in Amy Lindsey and Logan Rucinski v. Arkansas Department of Human Services and Minor Child (October 2025)
Acts 1979, No. 396, § 6; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-1658; Acts 1995, No. 1291, § 6.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) A person commits second degree assault on a family or household member if the person recklessly engages in conduct that creates a substantial risk of physical injury to a family or household member.
(2) Second degree assault on a family or household member is a Class B misdemeanor.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.