The criminal act required for battery boils down to an offensive or harmful contact. As a result, accidentally bumping into someone, offensive as the "victim" might consider it to be, would not constitute a battery. Additionally, if someone acts in a criminally reckless or negligent manner that results in such contact, it may constitute an assault. Instead, a person need only have an intent to contact or cause contact with another. It may come as some surprise that a battery generally does not require any intent to harm the victim (although such intent often exists in battery cases).
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