New York Consolidated Laws Service Penal Law (Pts. ONE — FOUR)
Part THREE Specific Offenses (Titles G — P)
Title H Offenses Against the Person Involving Physical Injury, Sexual Conduct, Restraint and Intimidation (Arts. 120 — 135)
Article 120 Assault and Related Offenses (§§ 120.00 — 120.70)
§ 120.10. Assault in the first degree.
A person is guilty of assault in the first degree when:
1. With intent to cause serious physical injury to another person, he causes such injury to such person or to a third person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument; or
2. With intent to disfigure another person seriously and permanently, or to destroy, amputate or disable permanently a member or organ of his body, he causes such injury to such person or to a third person; or
3. Under circumstances evincing a depraved indifference to human life, he recklessly engages in conduct which creates a grave risk of death to another person, and thereby causes serious physical injury to another person; or
4. In the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempted commission of a felony or of immediate flight therefrom, he, or another participant if there be any, causes serious physical injury to a person other than one of the participants.
Assault in the first degree is a class B felony.