Stark v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

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1. “knowingly and unlawfully committed the offense of Robbery in the First Degree when in the course of committing theft, he threatened the immediate use of a deadly weapon, namely a gun, upon [the victim], with the intent to accomplish a theft of personal funds from [the victim] in the back office of the Kentucky Farm Bureau Agency in Hickman, Kentucky.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Spears v. Commonwealth · Casey v. Commonwealth

2. “committed the offense of Robbery in the First Degree, by threatening the immediate use of physical force upon Moby Dick Restaurant. . .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thomas v. Commonwealth · Reardon v. Commonwealth

3. “The next assertion of error states that four counts of the indictment wMch charge robbery in the first degree of a place or a business entity fail to state an offense. Count 12 provided: COUNT TWELVE That on or about the 23rd of April, 1989, in Jefferson County, Kentucky, ... William Ray Stark, Jr., committed the offense of Robbery in the First Degree, by threatening the immediate use of physical force upon Moby Dick Restaurant, ... while armed with a gun, and in the course of committing a theft. * * * ⅜ ⅜ * The indictment was void since the correct test is whether the indictment states a public offense. The indictment, on Counts 12, 23, 26 and 36, does not support a conviction for robbery in the first degree because it fails to state a vital fact that the robbery was committed upon a person.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Reardon v. Commonwealth