Battery Battery is the intentional, harmful or offensive touching of another. The defendant is viewed as having the requisite intent when he acts with the desire to cause the result or believed that the result was substantially certain to occur. Diana's conduct of knowing that there was a significant risk of knocking down the scaffolding when she backed up her car and, thereafter, proceeding to back up her car establishes that she was substantially certain to cause the scaffolding to be knocked down. Thus, Diana's actions were intentional. Further, Diana knocked a support out from under the scaffold causing Abel to fall, demonstrating a harmful or offensive touching of another. Therefore, a battery exists