W.Virginia woman charged with battery after allegedly wiping nose on cop

DUNBAR, W.Va. - Sometimes you need a police officer; sometimes you need a tissue.

Confuse the two, and it could cost you. A woman in Charleston, West Virginia, is facing battery charges after allegedly wiping her nose on the back of a police officer's shirt.

Corporal S.E. Elliott says he had arrested the 36-year-old woman last week after seeing her slap a man, bite him on the elbow and spit in his face.

Elliott says the woman wiped her nose on him as he led her into the police station for booking on a charge of domestic battery.

Battery on a police officer is defined as intentionally making physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature with an officer.

<bat·ter·y (bt-r) n. pl. bat·ter·ies

1.

a. The act of beating or pounding.

b. Law The unlawful and unwanted touching or striking of one person by another, with the intention of bringing about a harmful or offensive contact.

bat·ter ¹ (btr)

v. bat·tered, bat·ter·ing, bat·ters

v.tr.

1. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows.

2. To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse.

It would be nice indeed if the legal definition stayed true to the actual meaning of the word, to beat, pound, to BATTER (to hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows)>