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On an indictment under section 18, the jury is open to convict under section 20 or section 47 if properly directed. [40] "Wounding" and "causing grievous bodily harm" are defined in the same way as they are in the crime of maliciously wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm.
Section 11 – Administering poison or wounding or causing grievous bodily harm with intent to murder. This section replaced section 2 of the Offences against the Person Act 1837 (7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 85). Section 12 – Destroying or damaging a building with gunpowder with intent to murder
Causing grievous bodily harm with intent Also referred to as "wounding with intent". This offence is created by section 18 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100). Other aggravated assault charges refer to assaults carried out against a specific target or with a specific intent: Assault with intent to rob
Mr Mann was charged on Christmas Day with common assault, section 18 wounding with intent and threatening a person with an offensive weapon, police said.
“Klevi Pirjani, 36 years, and Nivalda Santos Pirjani, 33 years, both of Percy Road, Seacombe have been charged with causing grievous bodily harm and Section 18 wounding with intent.
The expression "offence against the person" is used as a term of art in section 3 of the Visiting Forces Act 1952 (15 & 16 Geo.6 & 1 Eliz.2 c.67) and is defined for that purpose by paragraphs 1 (England and Wales and Northern Ireland) and 2 (Scotland) of the Schedule to that Act.
Defence counsel submitted that Bailey had neither the specific intent to cause grievous bodily harm for the purpose of Section 18 nor the general intent for an alternative verdict of unlawful wounding; however, the Recorder followed the decision in R v Quick and directed the jury that self-induced incapacity did not provide a defence, on the ...
Mr Gledhill also said Turpin had been acting recklessly but “no more than recklessly”, and subsequently was not guilty of an alternative charge of section 18 wounding with intent.