317 So. 2d 425 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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13 state decisions

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1. “The record shows that the appellant brazenly entered the store, cocked his pistol, disturbed the peace, harassed the store employees, aimed the loaded pistol at Reynolds, called him a son-of-a-bitch an [sic] in “wild-west” fashion took at gun point money-the property of another. Such violent self-help as a means of obtaining redress for grievances concerning property rights is inimical to order and the appropriate administration of justice. It would be most unjudi-cious to accept his argument that such a caper was done in good faith without animus furandi, and that, therefore, the case should not have gone to the jury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Veazy v. State

2. “take from the person or from the presence the personal property of another and against his will by violence to his person or by putting such person in fear of immediate injury to his person by the exhibition of a deadly weapon,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 878 So. 2d 207 - Broomfield v. State

3. “that specific intent to steal must be shown by the testimony in robbery cases.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 992 So. 2d 1151 - Croft v. State