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Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935

Arrested for assault & Charged with assault (6)

"§ 240. Assault in first degree defined. A person who, with an intent to kill a human being, or to commit a felony upon the person or property of the one assaulted, or of another:

1. Assaults another with a loaded fire arm, or any other deadly weapon, or by any other means or force likely to produce death; ...

Is guilty of assault in the first degree....

§ 242. Assault in second degree. A person who, under circumstances not amounting to the crime specified in section two hundred and forty,...

3. Willfully and wrongfully wounds or inflicts grievous bodily harm upon another, either with or without a weapon; or,
4. Willfully and wrongfully assaults another by the use of a weapon, or other instrument or thing likely to produce grievous bodily harm; or, 
5. Assaults another with intent to commit a felony, or to prevent or resist the execution of any lawful process or mandate of any court or officer, or the lawful apprehension or detention of himself, or of any other person,

Is guilty of assault in the second degree....

§ 244. Assault in third degree. A person who commits an assault and battery, not such as is specified in sections two hundred and foty and tow hundred and forty-two, is guilty of assault in the third degree."

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