How many years is the sentence for hitting someone and causing minor injuries?

Whoever beats another person and causes minor injuries constitutes a crime of intentional injury and is sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance.

According to criminal law

Article 234 Whoever intentionally harms another person's body shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance. Whoever commits the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph and causes serious injuries shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years; Whoever causes death or serious disability by particularly cruel means shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years, life imprisonment or death. Where there are other provisions in this Law, such provisions shall prevail.

Article 38 The control period and the control period of the executing organ shall be not less than three months but not more than two years. Controlled sentencing can be based on the circumstances of the crime, and criminals are prohibited from engaging in specific activities, entering specific areas, places and contacting specific people during execution. For criminals sentenced to public surveillance, community correction should be carried out according to law. Violation of the prohibition order stipulated in the second paragraph shall be punished by the public security organ in accordance with the provisions of the People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Administration Punishment Law.

Article 42 The term of criminal detention is from one month to six months.

Extended data

Case: Deliberately provoking an argument, beating others and causing minor injuries, was sentenced to seven months in prison.

Gu was once sentenced to a year's reeducation through labor for seeking trouble, but he did not repent. He deliberately provoked others and beat others to cause minor injuries. Recently, the People's Court of Wuzhi County, Henan Province held a public hearing on this intentional injury case and sentenced the defendant Gu to seven months' imprisonment for intentional injury.

201711In the early morning, Sue finished singing in KTV and was ready to leave. When he walked into the hall, he was suddenly stopped by Gu. They had an altercation during the conversation. Sue doesn't want to make any more noise. She wants to go out. Gu suddenly spat in Sue's face and tried to stop him from leaving KTV. Sue grabbed Gu's arm in anger.

Gu immediately beat Sue. In the fight, Su Ran walked out of the KTV. Gu took out a U-shaped lock from the KTV bar and chased Su, and continued to beat Su with the U-shaped lock in his hand, causing Su's left ulna fracture, scalp laceration and multiple soft tissue injuries. After identification, Su's degree of injury was minor injury.

After trial, the court held that the defendant Gu Mou intentionally injured others' bodies, causing minor injuries to the victim Su Mou, and his behavior constituted a crime of intentional injury. In view of the defendant's frank and positive compensation and the understanding of the victim, the above judgment was made according to law.

References:

Wen county Public Security Bureau Network-Criminal Law

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China court network-deliberately picking fights, beating others, causing minor injuries, sentenced to seven months in prison.