re: #665 Coracle

Both the statute and the facts - including is own admission - support Rice being guilty of assault and battery before the biter was guilty of anything. It’s pretty simple.

Let me try this again. The guy had the much younger Move On guy in his face. He reasonably concluded that the guy had the ‘ABILITY” to perform a battery & defended himself.
When the guy got in his face , that was the battery.