serious bodily injury

serious bodily injury
An injury which gives rise to apprehension; an injury which is attended with danger. (Webster's Dictionary.) George v State, 21 Tex App 315, 317. The word "serious," when used to define the degree of bodily harm or injury apprehended, requires or implies as high a degree as the word "great," and the latter word means high in degree, as contradistinguished from trifling. Lawlor v People, 74 Ill 228, 231.

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