Opinion
Defendant was convicted by jury of assault with a deadly weapon (Pen. Code, § 245, subd. (a)) and it was found to be true that in the commission of the offense defendant inflicted great bodily injury within the meaning of Penal Code section 12022.7. Defendant was sentenced to state prison for the midterm of three years plus three additional years for the great bodily injury finding, for a total of six years.
Facts
Around 11 p.m. on November 20, 1979, Thomas Cartwright (a six feet six inches trucker) was making a telephone call from a telephone booth at a truck stop in Colton. In an adjacent booth defendant (five feet nine inches) was also making a telephone call, screaming at the top of his lungs into the phone. Cartwright asked defendant to keep the volume down and defendant replied “mother fuck you.” Cartwright told defendant “Well, just shut up then, goddamn it.”
Defendаnt screamed at Cartwright, “I’ll kill you, white honkie mother fucker and son of a bitch.” Defendant kicked the door on Cartwright’s booth open and the door hit Cartwright. As the door opened defendant shouted, “Don’t tell me to shut up, you white honkie, mother fucker.”
Defendant returned to his telephone booth, but Cartwright grabbed him by his head and screamed, “You black son of a bitch, you goddamned nigger.” He added, “We got to live around these truck stops, and ... people like you come around here and raise Cain and Holy Hell and starting trouble.” Cartwright then slung defendant down and defendant stumbled away. Before he left, defendant said, “I’ll get you white honkie, you mother fucker. I’ll get you.” He added that if he had a gun he would shoot Cartwright.
*585 The telephone booths are just outside a restaurant at the truck stop. Cartwright went into the restaurant. What defendant did is unclear. Defendant had been talking to his brother on the telephone. This brother and another adult arrived in a car at the truck stop. Defendant reached in the vehicle and pulled out a club through the open window. Armed with the club and intending to get even with Cartwright, defendant entered the restaurant.
Cartwright had gone into the restaurant and ordered soup and coffee. Some 10 to 15 minutes after the incident аt the phone booth Cartwright began to take a sip of his coffee when defendant, approaching from Cartwright’s back, hit him on the side of the head with a club. Cartwright looked up and defendant struck him twice more, breaking the club. Cartwright went under the table and defendant began to beat on the table. When Cartwright got up to run he was stabbed in the side with a butcher knife. Cartwright ran to the other end of the restaurant and heard a gunshot. Cartwright thought he had been shot but, apparently, a restaurant patron fired a gun to break things up. With the gunshot, defendant and his brother fled.
Cartwright was taken to the hospital where X-rays showed he had suffered a linear skull fracture and a scan showed an intercranial hemorrhage. Surgery was required which entailed removing a bone from Cartwright’s head and draining blood from the brain area.
Cartwright suffered a contusion to the brain. He was confined to the intensive care unit for several days and to the hospital for 29 days. He had diminished strength and coordination in his right arm as a result of the injury to the brain and was on antiseizure medication at the time of the trial. Untreated, Cartwright may have died from the injury.
On December 4, 1979, Colton Police Detective Crowe went to the Orange Blossom Motel in San Bernardino and advised defendant of his Miranda rights. Dеfendant said he understood these rights and agreed to speak with the officer. Defendant related he had an argument with Cartwright by the phone booth and Cartwright had struck him. Thereafter defendant said he went to the parking lot, took a club from a car driven by his brother, went into the restaurant and hit Cartwright on the head three times with the club.
On appeal defendant contends: (1) the court erred in enhancing his sentence for the intentional infliction of great bodily injury; (2) the *586 court erred in refusing an instruction concerning “heat of passion”; (3) the court erred in denying defendant’s motion to amend the information to add a charge of battery and in denying battery instructions; and (4) the failure to prosecute Cartwright for his attack on defendant constitutes unlawful selective prosecution of defendant because he is black. We affirm the trial court.
I
Bodily Injury Sentence
Defendant contends that it was error, as a matter of law, to increase his sentence pursuant to Penal Code section 12022.7 1 for the infliction of great bodily injury. Defendant observes that the added three years of punishment required by section 12022.7 is not applicable where “infliction of great bodily injury is an element of the offense of which he is convicted.” Defendant then argues that the gravаmen of assault with a deadly weapon involves great bodily injury and that the penalty under section 12022.7 can only be applied to felonies which do not involve great bodily injury as the gravamen of the offense. He concludes with the assertion that the penalty for assault with a deadly weapon already comprehends punishment for the infliction of great bodily injury and thus the three-year sentence hе received pursuant to section 12022.7 was erroneous. Defendant is not correct.
To be guilty of the offense described in Penal Code section 245, subdivision (a), it is not necessary to inflict great bodily injury. The pertinent portion of that section reads: “Every person who commits an assault upon the person of another with a deadly weapon or instrument or by any means of force likely to producе great bodily injury is punishable .... ” The actual infliction of injury is not required by the statute
*587
in order to violate its prohibition.
(People
v.
Brown
(1980)
The assault with a deadly weapon statute is directed at punishment of the
use
of deadly weapons or acts of force
which create a danger
of serious injury to the victim. Section 245 “focuses on force
likely
to produce harm, it is immaterial that the force actually resulted in no harm whatever.”
(People
v.
Wingo
(1975)
An earlier version of section 12022.7 specifically stated that it did not apply to a section 245 assault. Subsequently, but prior to the instant offense, the Legislature amended section 12022.7 to delete the section 245 exception. In our view this is an apparent legislative recognition of the obvious fact that the offense proscribed by section 245 does not contain as an element the intentional infliction of great bodily injury. The exceptions which remain intact each involve the infliction of great bodily injury (murder, manslaughter, arson causing great bodily injury and unlawfully causing a fire which causes great bоdily injury). In addition, of course, the penalty of section 12022.7 is excepted whenever infliction of great bodily injury is an element of the offense.
A comparison of section 245 and section 12022.7 fails to bear out defendant’s contention. The application of the three-year punishment specified in section 12022.7 for infliction of great bodily injury was not error. 2
*588 II
Heat of Passion Instruction
Defendant contends the court erred in refusing to give the following instruction: “If you find that Mr. Smith, the defendant was adequately provoked so that he cоuld use force against Mr. Cartwright in self-defense, then the right would exist until a reasonable man would have cooled down, i.e., regained a rational state of mind.
“Whether or not there was a reasonable opportunity for the passion to cool, depends upon whether or not, under all the circumstances of the particular case, there has been such a lapse of time since the рrovocation was received that the mind of the ordinary reasonable man would have cooled sufficiently so that action once more would be directed by reason rather than by passion.”
Penal Code section 245 is a general intent crime.
(People
v.
Wingo, supra,
Defendant places his reliance on general cases such as
People
v.
Sears
(1970)
Defendant’s testimony was that he had been stranded at the truck stop by some girls. He called the Colton police but they would not give him a ride. He then called his wife. He said he was yelling but not “cussing.” Then he said he was not, by his view, even talking loudly on the phone.
Defendant noticed Cartwright enter the adjacent phone booth. Cartwright seemed slightly upset during his conversation on the telephоne. Defendant then admits to being upset and yelling. Cartwright came out of his own booth and said, “‘Well, hey, fucking nigger, shut your damn mouth.’” Defendant responded, “‘Hey, man, I don’t want any hassle. I’m stranded out here. I’m trying to get home. I just don’t want no hassle.’” Defendant then returned to a telephone conversation with his wife. Then defendant started talking to his brother.
Next, according to defendant, Cartwright “came and grabbed me, you know, and he just—yоu know, he said, ‘Well, fucking nigger, I told you to shut your fucking mouth.’ ... he grabbed me, threw me down.”
Defendant said there were about three other truck drivers, dressed like cowboys, in the vicinity. After Cartwright slung defendant to the ground, Cartwright kicked defendant in the ribs and said, “‘Hey, fucking nigger, you know, you better get your fucking ass out of here before we kill you.’” Cartwright then went in the restaurant and defendant saw the other men “patting him on the back like he had done something big.”
Defendant then was “getting ... back together . .. because my ribs was hurting.” Defendant’s brother arrived in a car (this is the same brother who was at the other end of the telephone when Cartwright “grabbed” defendant). Defendant was going to get in the car “but then I seen the stick, you know, it just—I was just, you know—made me so mad I just went on off, you know.... I just went in and hit him. I didn’t try to kill him or anything like that. I just went to get him back for what he did to me. He had no reason to say anything to me from the beginning.”
On cross-examination defendant explained he entered the restaurant and hit Cartwright over the head three times, breaking the “stick” on *590 the third blow. He denied beating on the table. He heard a gunshot and left. Defendant said he was mad and his purpose in entering the restaurant was to hit Cartwright, to get even and get back at him. “Well, true, just to get him for what he did to me, because he had no reason dоing it, you know. I mean I should have called the police but it just wasn’t on my mind at that time. My ribs was paining and I was just pissed off because this guy didn’t have no reason putting his hands on me, let alone say anything to me. He was in the wrong.”
On this record, defendant now asserts that he was in danger of Cartwright returning and injuring him further. He also asserts that there was evidence that he acted in the heat of passion and before expiration of a rеasonable cooling off period.
“[T]he right of self-defense is based upon the appearance of imminent peril to the person attacked. When the danger has passed and the attacker has withdrawn, there can be no justification for the use of further force.”
(People
v.
Perez
(1970)
The defense evidence doesn’t provide even a glimmer of self-defense. Thus, self-defense instructions were not required even though standard self-defense instructions were given. Defendant simply was in no peril with Cartwright in the restaurant and defendant’s brother at the scene, with a car, to drive defendant away from the truck stop.
The instruction under review seeks tо extend the period in which defendant could have exercised the right of self-defense to include a cooling off period. It is obviously directed at the assault rather than the enhancement. Self-defense is at least a suspect concept as applied to a Penal Code section 12022.7 enhancement as the self-defense should be directed at the underlying crime. Defendant has аlso failed to explain how the heat of passion theory developed in the arena of voluntary manslaughter applies to an enhancement finding and how it would work. The instruction, of course, lacks any acceptable definitions of “adquately provoked” and “passion.” The instruction is, basically, confusion. It takes the self-defense concept, which was not reasonably available to defendant, and haphazardly mixes it with a concept applicable to voluntary manslaughter. As best we can tell from this *591 instruction, it was an effort to instruct the jury that it could find that defendant had clubbed Cartwright over the head in self-defense.
We have had difficulty understanding this instruction within the framework of the legal position it is supposed to represent. The only authority presented to the trial court for the instruсtion was a section of a criminal law textbook on manslaughter.
We are satisfied that the instruction is not required by the facts of this case. We are also satisfied that this particular instruction is a non sequitur without any support in law that it be given, at least under the facts and circumstances of this case. The court did not commit error in refusing to give the instruction.
Ill
Battery
Defendant contends the court erred in denying a defеnse motion to amend the information to charge battery (Pen. Code, § 243) and erred in refusing proffered defense instructions on battery. Defendant also contends his new trial motion should have been granted because of these claimed errors.
Defendant argues the court erred in denying a defense motion to amend the information to add a charge of battery. The People contend that dеfendant seeks to usurp the executive function vested in the prosecution to determine the crimes to be charged. The People argue defendant seeks to invade the separation of powers doctrine.
“The choice of the appropriate offense to be charged is ... within the discretionary power of the prosecuting attorney.”
(People
v.
Smith
(1975)
Alternatively, defendant relies on
People
v.
Yancy, supra,
Here defendant was charged with assault with a deadly weapon and sought battery instructions. Battery, however, is not an included offense in the crime of assault with a deadly weapon.
(People
v.
Fuller, supra,
We are also directed to
People
v.
Lathus
(1973)
Defendant is of the view that because there was evidence which could have supported a finding of guilt of battery, the failure to instruct on battery “skewed” jury deliberations toward guilt of assault plus treating the injury only within the terms of Penal Code section 12022.7. However, as we have previously observed, battery is not an instruction which is required on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Nor do we think battery is alleged in an information where the People allege an assault with а deadly weapon and then further allege the intentional infliction of great bodily injury in order to comply with the requisites of a Penal Code section 12022.7 enhancement. The trial court properly refused battery instructions.
It also follows, based upon our discussion above, that the trial court properly denied defendant’s new trial motion as founded on the denial of the battery amendment and the battеry instructions.
IV
Selective Prosecution
Defendant contends that he has been subjected to discriminatory prosecution. He premises this on the observation that the victim was not prosecuted for assault on defendant. He looks to the activity at the telephone booths and terms himself the victim of a battery, perhaps even the victim of an assault with a deadly weapon. He concludes that racial discrimination is at the heart of the prosecutorial decision to prosecute defendant but not his victim. The racial discrimination claim is devoid of record support.
This contention was not raised before the superior court and is spurious on the record before us. (Cf.
Murgia
v.
Municipal Court
(1975)
Judgment affirmed.
Notes
Before Gardner, P. J., Kaufman, J., and McDaniel, J.
Penal Code section 12022.7 provides:
“Any person who, with the intent to inflict such injury, personally inflicts great bodily injury on any person other than an accomplice in the commission оr attempted commission of a felony shall, in addition and consecutive to the punishment prescribed for the felony or attempted felony of which he has been convicted, be punished by an additional term of three years, unless infliction of great bodily injury is an element of the offense of which he is convicted.
“As used in this section, great bodily injury means a significant physical injury.
“This section shall not apply to murder or manslaughter or a violation of Section 451 or 452. The additional term provided in this section shall not be imposed unless the fact of great bodily injury is charged in the accusatory pleadings and admitted or found to be true by the trier of fact.”
We have not specifically discussed the various cases cited by defendant because none of them embrace the instant appeal issue. (E.g. seе:
People
v.
Caudillo
(1978) 21
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