The charges were eventually reduced to simple battery and trespassing, both misdemeanors.

A case of self-defense could be easily converted to simple battery.

"I might be able to reduce to simple battery," she said.

Duncan was arrested and ultimately charged with simple battery.

He later pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor charge of simple battery.

The prosecution claimed the 1994 conviction for simple battery was sufficient to place him under the federal firearms ban.

The official charges were simple battery and cruelty to children, both misdemeanors.

He was also charged with having no proof of insurance, committing simple battery on an officer and driving without lights.

Another time, he got into it with his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend and was arrested for simple battery.

At common law, simple battery is a misdemeanor.