Kentucky Instructions to Juries – Criminal
CHAPTER 3 ASSAULTS AND RESTRAINTS OF PERSONS
Part 1. Definitions

§ 3.09 Serious Physical Injury

[KRS 500.080(17)]

Serious Physical Injury—Means physical injury which creates a substantial risk of death, or which causes serious and prolonged disfigurement, prolonged impairment of health, or prolonged loss or impairment of the function of any bodily organ.

 

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