758 So. 2d 1246 - Fine v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. · 750 So. 2d 643 - State v. Thompson · 758 So. 2d 667 - Salters v. State · 692 So. 2d 883 - Robinson v. State · 733 So. 2d 955 - Miller v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“The line between robbery and larceny from the person (between violence and lack of violence) is not always easy to draw. The "snatching" cases, for instance, have given rise to some dispute. The great weight of authority, however, supports the view that there is not sufficient force to constitute robbery when the thief snatches property from the owner's grasp so suddenly that the owner cannot offer any resistance to the taking. On the other hand, when the owner, aware of an impending snatching, resists or when, the thief's first attempt being ineffective to separate the owner from his property, a struggle for the property is necessary before the thief can get possession thereof, there is enough force to make the taking robbery. Taking the owner's property by stealthily picking his pocket is not taking by force and so is not robbery; but if the pickpocket or his confederate jostles the owner, or if the owner, catching the pickpocket in the act, struggles unsuccessfully to keep possession, the pickpocket's crime becomes robbery. To remove an article of value, attached to the owner's person or clothing, by a sudden snatching or by stealth is not robbery unless the article in question (e.g., an earring, pin or watch) is so attached to the person or his clothes as to require some force to effect its removal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rigell v. State“(1) "Robbery" means the taking of money or other property which may be the subject of larceny from the person or custody of another ... when in the course of the taking there is the use of force, violence, assault, or putting in fear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rigell v. State
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