Idaho Code § 18-901 : — CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTSASSAULT AND BATTERY —901 - ASSAULT DEFINED TEXT PDF An assault is: (a) An unlawful attempt, coupled with apparent ability, to commit a violent injury on the person of another; or (b) An intentional, unlawful threat by word or act to do violence to the person of another, coupled with an apparent ability to do so, and doing some act which creates a well-founded fear in such other person that such violence is imminent. Idaho Code § 18-901 [18-901, added 1979, ch. 227, sec. 2, p. 624.]