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ROBBERY

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crimes. The felonious and forcible taking from the person of another, goods or money to any value, by violence or putting him in fear. 2. By taking from the person is meant not only the immediate taking from his person, but also from his presence when it is done with violence and against his consent. The taking must be by violence or putting the owner in fear, but both these circumstances need not concur, for if a man should be knocked down and then robbed while be is insensible, the offence is still a robbery. 4 Binn. R. 379. And if the party be put in fear by threats and then robbed, it is not necessary there should be any greater violence. 3. This offence differs from a larceny from the person in this, that in the latter, there is no violence, while in the former the crime is incomplete without an actual or constructive force.

Law Dictionary – Alternative Legal Definition

Robbery is the felonious taking of personal property in the possession of another, from his person or immediate presence, and against his will, accomplished by means of force or fear. Robbery is the wrongful, fraudulent, and violent taking of money, goods, or chattels from the person of another by force, or inr timidatlon, without the consent of the owner. Code Ga. 1882, 4389. Bobbery is where a person, either with violence or with threats of injury, and putting the person robbed in fear, takes and carries away a thing which is on the body, or in the immediate presence, of the person from whom It is taken, under such circumstances that, in the absence of violence or threats, the act committed would be a theft. Highway robbery. In criminal law. The crime of robbery committed upon or near a public highway. State v. Brown, 113 N. C. 645, 18 S. E. 51. In England, by St 23 Hen. VIII. c. 1, this was made felony without benefit of clergy, while, robbery committed elsewhere was less severely punished.

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