App. 442, 449, 546 S.E.2d 209, 212 (2001) (defining assault as '[a]n attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do some bodily hurt to another, . . . as by striking at him with a stick or other weapon, or without a weapon, though he be not struck, or even by raising up the arm or a cane in a menacing manner . . . or any similar act accompanied with circumstances denoting an intention coupled w