Title 16, Chapter 5, Section 20
( 16-5-20)
(a) A person commits the offense of simple assault when he or she
either: (1) Attempts to commit a violent injury to the person of another;
or (2) Commits an act which places another in reasonable apprehension
of immediately receiving a violent injury. (b) Except as provided in subsections (c), (d), and (e) of this
Code section, a person who commits the offense of simple assault
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (c) Any person who commits the offense of simple assault in a public
transit vehicle or station shall, upon conviction thereof, be
punished for a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature. For
purposes of this Code section, "public transit vehicle" means a bus,
van, or rail car used for the transportation of passengers within a
system which receives a subsidy from tax revenues or is operated
under a franchise contract with a county or municipality of this
state. (d) If the offense of simple assault is committed between past or
present spouses, persons who are parents of the same child, parents
and children, stepparents and stepchildren, foster parents and
foster children, or other persons excluding siblings living or
formerly living in the same household, the defendant shall be
punished for a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature. In no
event shall this subsection be applicable to corporal punishment
administered by a parent or guardian to a child or administered by a
person acting in loco parentis. (e) Any person who commits the offense of simple assault against a
person who is 65 years of age or older shall, upon conviction
thereof, be punished for a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated
nature. | 
