
    STATE v. GEORGE ROGERS and ELIJAH SCOTT.
    Court of Quarter Sessions.
    April, 1796.
    
      Wilson’s Red Book, 98.
    
    
      Wilson for defendant.
   The charge to jury by Bassett, C. J.:

Whenever one man touches another in an angry manner it is a battery. Every battery includes an assault, and there can be no battery without an assault. If you think the touching by defendants was done by them when angry, there is a battery.

One was acquitted.  