Battery defined
Applied in 36 court decisions — leading case Johnson v. United States (2010)
Most recently applied in United States v. Troy Brasby (February 2023)
I.C., § 18-903, 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.
A battery is any:
(1) Willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another; or
(2) Actual, intentional and unlawful touching or striking of another person against the will of the other; or
(3) Unlawfully and intentionally causing bodily harm to an individual.
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.