(a) A person is guilty of assault in the first degree when:
(1) The person intentionally causes serious physical injury to another person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument; or
(2) The person intentionally disfigures another person seriously and permanently, or intentionally destroys, amputates or disables permanently a member or organ of another person's body; or
(3) The person recklessly engages in conduct which creates a substantial risk of death to another person, and thereby causes serious physical injury to another person; or
(4) While engaged in the commission of, or attempt to commit, or flight after committing or attempting to commit any felony, the person intentionally or recklessly causes serious physical injury to another person; or
(5) The person intentionally causes serious physical injury to a law-enforcement officer, a volunteer firefighter, a full-time firefighter, emergency medical technician, paramedic, fire police officer, fire marshal, public transit operator, a code enforcement constable or a code enforcement officer who is acting in the lawful performance of duty; or
(6) The person intentionally causes serious physical injury to the operator of an ambulance, a rescue squad member, licensed practical nurse, registered nurse, paramedic, licensed medical doctor or any other person while such person is rendering emergency care; or
(7) The person intentionally causes serious physical injury to another person who is 62 years of age or older.
(b) It is no defense, for an offense under paragraph (a)(7) of this section, that the accused did not know the person's age or that the accused reasonably believed the person to be under the age of 62.
(c) Assault in the first degree is a class B felony.
Structure Delaware Code
Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Subchapter II. Offenses Against the Person
§ 601. Offensive touching; unclassified misdemeanor; class A misdemeanor.
§ 602. Menacing; unclassified misdemeanor.
§ 603. Reckless endangering in the second degree; class A misdemeanor.
§ 604. Reckless endangering in the first degree; class E felony.
§ 605. Abuse of a pregnant female in the second degree; class C felony.
§ 606. Abuse of a pregnant female in the first degree; class B felony.
§ 607. Strangulation or suffocation; class B or D felony; penalty; affirmative defense.
§ 607A. Aggravated strangulation; penalty; defenses.
§ 611. Assault in the third degree; class A misdemeanor.
§ 612. Assault in the second degree; class D felony.
§ 613. Assault in the first degree; class B felony.
§ 614. Abuse of a sports official; class G felony; class A misdemeanor.
§ 621. Terroristic threatening.
§ 622. Hoax device; class F felony.
§ 625. Unlawfully administering drugs; class A misdemeanor.
§ 627. Prohibited acts as to substances releasing vapors or fumes; unclassified misdemeanor.
§ 628A. Vehicular assault in the second degree; class A misdemeanor.
§ 629. Vehicular assault in the first degree; class F felony.
§ 631. Criminally negligent homicide; class D felony.
§ 632. Manslaughter; class B felony.
§ 633. Murder by abuse or neglect in the second degree; class B felony.
§ 634. Murder by abuse or neglect in the first degree; class A felony.
§ 635. Murder in the second degree; class A felony.
§ 636. Murder in the first degree; class A felony.
§ 641. Extreme emotional distress.
§ 645. Promoting suicide; class F felony.
§ 761. Definitions generally applicable to sexual offenses.
§ 762. Provisions generally applicable to sexual offenses.
§ 763. Sexual harassment; unclassified misdemeanor.
§ 764. Indecent exposure in the second degree; unclassified misdemeanor.
§ 765. Indecent exposure in the first degree; class A misdemeanor.
§ 766. Incest; class A misdemeanor.
§ 767. Unlawful sexual contact in the third degree; class A misdemeanor.
§ 768. Unlawful sexual contact in the second degree; class F felony.
§ 769. Unlawful sexual contact in the first degree; class D felony.
§ 770. Rape in the fourth degree; class C felony.
§ 771. Rape in the third degree; class B felony.
§ 772. Rape in the second degree; class B felony.
§ 773. Rape in the first degree; class A felony.
§ 774. Sexual extortion; class E felony.
§ 776. Continuous sexual abuse of a child; class B felony.
§ 777. Dangerous crime against a child, definitions, sentences.
§ 777A. Sex offender unlawful sexual conduct against a child.
§ 780. Female genital mutilation.
§ 780A. Sexual intercourse or penetration with a person in custody; class F felony.
§ 780B. Unlawful sexual contact with a person in custody; class G felony.
§ 781. Unlawful imprisonment in the second degree; class A misdemeanor.
§ 782. Unlawful imprisonment in the first degree; class G felony.
§ 783. Kidnapping in the second degree; class C felony.
§ 783A. Kidnapping in the first degree; class B felony.
§ 784. Defense to unlawful imprisonment and kidnapping.
§ 785. Interference with custody; class G felony; class A misdemeanor.
§ 786. Kidnapping and related offenses; definitions.