Salman, let me educate you on the legal definition of a
wound:
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :
WOUND, med. jur. This term, in legal medicine, comprehends all
lesions of
the body, and in this it differs from the meaning of the word when
used in
surgery. The latter only refers to a solution of continuity, while
the
former comprises not only these, but also every other kind of
accident, such
as bruises, contusions, fractures, dislocations, and the like.
Cooper's
Surgical Dict. h.t.; Dunglison's Med. Dict. h.t.; vide Dictionnaire
des
Sciences Medicales, mot Blessures 3 Fodere, Med. Leg. Sec.
687-811.
2. Under the statute 9 Geo. IV. c. 21, sect. 12, it has
been held in
England, that to make a wound, in criminal cases, there must be "an
injury
to the person by which the skin is broken." 6 C. & P.
684; S. C. 19 Eng. C.
L. Rep. 526. Vide Beck's Med. Jur. c. 15; Ryan's Med. Jur. Index,
h.t.;
Roscoe's Cr. Ev. 652; 19 Eng. Com. L. Rep. 425, 430, 526, 529;
Dane's Ab.
Index, h.t.; 1 Moody's Cr. Cas. 278; 4 C. & P. 381; S. C. 19 E.
C. L. R.
430; 4 C. & P. 446; S. C. 19 E. C. L. R. 466; 1 Moody's Cr. C.
318; 4 C. &
P. 558; S. C. 19 E. C. L. R. 526; Carr. Cr. L. 239; Guy, Med. Jur.
ch. 9, p.
446; Merl. Repert. mot Blessure.
