2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 14 — Criminal law
RS 14:34.7 — Aggravated second degree battery
§34.7. Aggravated second degree battery
A.(1) Aggravated second degree battery is a battery committed with a dangerous weapon when the offender intentionally inflicts serious bodily injury.
(2) For purposes of this Section, "serious bodily injury" means bodily injury which involves unconsciousness, extreme physical pain or protracted and obvious disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or mental faculty, or a substantial risk of death.
B. Whoever commits the crime of aggravated second degree battery shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than fifteen years, or both.
Acts 1997, No. 1318, §1, eff. July 15, 1997.
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