881 So. 2d 308 - Calhoun v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “Every person who shall feloniously take or attempt to 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 shall be guilty of robbery. . . .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 34 So. 3d 612 - Ewing v. State · 969 So. 2d 72 - White v. State

2. “Mississippi Code Annotated [s]ection 97-3-79 punishes attempted armed robbery the same as armed robbery.... The language in the indictment tracks the statute, in that the crime of armed robbery is complete at the attempt. It is irrelevant that the indictment only stated that [the defendant] “attempted to take” because according to the statute, a person can be convicted of armed robbery while attempting to complete the act. The language in the indictment is consistent with this notion that the act is complete upon the attempt.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 34 So. 3d 612 - Ewing v. State

3. “the crime of armed robbery is complete at the attempt.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 969 So. 2d 72 - White v. State