Description of Circumstantial Ad Hominem. A Circumstantial ad Hominem is a fallacy in which one attempts to attack a claim by asserting that the person making the claim is making it simply out of self interest.
Report Abuse. Depends. One charge, simple assault, can be up to one year jail if first offense.Can also be probation on top of that, community service, diversion classes ($), fines, even restitution to victim and civil suit.
A personconvicted of felony assault shall be imprisoned in the state prison for a term notto exceed 10 years. . .. 1Freeman: State v. Goodwin: Defining Serious Bodily Injury in Aggravated Assault and Kidnapping CasesPublished by The Scholarly Forum @ Montana Law, 1987.