Understanding Maiming: Severe Physical Harm in Oklahoma.
Severe Physical Harm
Hi, this is Oklahoma lawyer Stuart Ericson. We’re talking about crimes against persons or crimes against people. One that I have seen charged, you don’t hear about it too often, is maiming, if you maim somebody.
The elements of maiming are, first, the infliction upon another of a physical injury that disables, disfigures, or seriously diminishes physical vigor performed with the intent to cause the injury. So this is injuring somebody that disables or disfigures them, kind of scars them for life in some way, whether it’s loss of a bodily function, whether it’s a permanent scar or something that’s kind of a permanent imprint that you intentionally cause upon that person.
So again, it would be very fact-specific versus, obviously, injuries and scars that can occur from just fights, from assault, and batteries in general. But maiming is something a little bit different, because it’s, you know, the state would have to prove your intent to want to cause that disfigurement or to cause that injury. So it’s a little above and beyond a simple assault and battery or a fight that leaves somebody injured. This goes above and beyond, and of course, it would be a felony.
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