The unlawful, intentional inflicting, or attempted or threatened to inflict, of serious injury upon the person of another is the crime of:

• A. Battery
• B. Assault
• C. Manslaughter
• D. Aggravated assault

Answer: (D)

The main idea is how an assault becomes more serious when serious injury is involved. Assault generally covers threatening or attempting to cause harm to another person, or actually inflicting harm. When the act involves intent to cause serious bodily injury (or actually causing it), the offense is elevated to aggravated assault. The description here emphasizes an unlawful, intentional infliction of serious injury, or an attempt or threat to do so—that combination signals the more serious, aggravated form. Battery is about actual physical contact, not just the threat or intent to cause serious harm; manslaughter involves causing death, which isn’t described here. So this scenario fits aggravated assault because of the serious injury element.