Assault in the fourth degree
Applied in 41 court decisions — leading case 134 S. Ct. 1405 - United States v. Castleman (2014)
Most recently applied in Robert Sean Reed v. Campbell Cnty., Ky. (August 2023)
Effective: July 15, 1982 History: Amended 1982 Ky
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 is guilty of assault in the fourth degree when:
(a) He intentionally or wantonly causes physical injury to another person; or (b) With recklessness he causes physical injury to another person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument.
(2) Assault in the fourth degree is a Class A misdemeanor.
Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.