2013 New York Consolidated Laws
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Title H - OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON INVOLVING PHYSICAL INJURY, SEXUAL CONDUCT, RESTRAINT AND INTIMIDATION
Article 120 - (120.00 - 120.70) ASSAULT AND RELATED OFFENSES
120.10 - Assault in the first degree.


NY Penal L § 120.10 (2012) What's This?
 
  § 120.10 Assault in the first degree.
    A person is guilty of assault in the first degree when:
    1.  With intent to cause serious physical injury to another person, he
  causes such injury to such person or to a third person  by  means  of  a
  deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument; or
    2.  With intent to disfigure another person seriously and permanently,
  or to destroy, amputate or disable permanently a member or organ of  his
  body, he causes such injury to such person or to a third person; or
    3. Under circumstances evincing a depraved indifference to human life,
  he  recklessly engages in conduct which creates a grave risk of death to
  another person, and thereby causes serious physical  injury  to  another
  person; or
    4.  In the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempted
  commission of a felony or of immediate flight therefrom, he, or  another
  participant  if there be any, causes serious physical injury to a person
  other than one of the participants.
    Assault in the first degree is a class B felony.

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