Most people don't realize that simple battery arrests can happen to anyone. Many people however don't consider the implications of the charges until they happen to them. The Police Department recently charged a fire chief in Milledgeville with simple battery. According to the GBI investigation, the Milledgeville police department initiated the arrest of the fire chief in Baldwin County after a dispute at a fundraiser that led to fisticuffs according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigations. 

Certain circumstances are required to make a charge of simple battery.  The offense of Simple Battery is defined by the statute established by our legislature from O.C.G.A. 16-5-23 and Battery is defined in O.C.G.A. 16-5-23.1. In part, these statute states that a person commits the offense of simple battery when they intentionally make physical contact of insulting or provoking nature or causes harm to another. In this case simply un consented touching could qualify for the offense. Basically a simple unwanted touching to another person would qualify the act as simple battery. In this situation it definitely qualified after the fire chief and a former employee got into a heated argument that resulted in punches being thrown at one another. 

Of course there are facts to every case where defenses can be raised for anyone charged with the crimes of Simple Battery or Battery. Each situation is different from the other and requires a evaluation of all the information in order to properly mount a defense and a effective negotiation with the prosecutors office.

Have you been arrested for Battery, Simple Battery, Aggravated Battery, Aggravated Assault or rape?

              Every case is different because no two sets of facts are the same. Proper application of not just the law but also case law to your situation would take examination of the facts surrounding your case and creating a properly mounted defense for YOUR arrest.

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