Assault defined
Applied in 21 court decisions — leading case United States v. Schneider (2018)
Most recently applied in United States v. Charles States (July 2023)
I.C., § 18-901, as added by 1979, ch. 227, § 2, p. 624.
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.
An assault is:
(1) An unlawful attempt, coupled with apparent ability, to commit a violent injury on the person of another; or
(2) An intentional, unlawful threat by word or act to do violence to the person of another, coupled with an apparent ability to do so, and doing some act which creates a well-founded fear in such other person that such violence is imminent.
Current official text: Idaho Statutes (Idaho Legislature). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Idaho statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.