If a person is convicted of simple assault on a law enforcement officer, elected official, medical personnel, social worker, public health personnel, a person over the age of sixty five or a vulnerable person they can be punished by up to a thousand dollar fine or incarceration for up to five year, or both. “When a person is guilty commits aggravated assault, they attempt to cause serious bodily injury to another person and if they attempt to cause, purposely, or knowingly cause causes bodily injury to another person with a deadly weapon, they can be punished by incarceration in the county jail for up to one year or in the state penitentiary for up to twenty years (Lexis Nexis 2014)”. If a person is convicted of aggravated assault on a law
