Robbery

Robbery ls 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. Pen. Code Cal. §211; 1 Hawk. P. C. 25; 4 Bl. Comm. 243; United States v. Jones, 3 Wash. C. C. 209, Fed. Cas. No. 15,494; Seymour v. State, 15 Ind. 288; McDaniel v. State, 16 Miss. 401, 47 Am. Dec. 93. Robbery Is the wrongful, fraudulent, and violent taking of money, goods, or chattels, from the person of another by force or intimidation, without the consent of the owner. Co.de Ga. 1882, § 4389. Robbery 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 bsdy, 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. Steph. Crim. Dig. 208; 2 Russ. Crimes, 78. And sce, further, Sinte v. Osborne, 116 Iowa, 479, 89 N. W. 1077; In re Co.ffey, 123 Cal. 522, 56 Pac. 448; Matthews v. State, 4 Ohio St. 540; Benson v. McMahon, 127 U. S. 457, 8 Sup. Ct. 1240, 32 In Ed. 234; State v. McGinnis, 158 Mo. 105, 59 S. W. 83; State v. Burke, 73 N. C. 87; Reardon v. State, 4 Tex. App. 610; Houston v. Com., 87 Va. 257, 12 S. E. 385; Thomas v. Sinte, 91 Ala. 34, 9 South. 81; Hickey v. State, 23 Ind. 22.

— Highway robbery. In criminni law. The crime of robbery committed upon or near a public highway. State v. Brown, ll3 N. C. 645, 18 S. E. 51. In England, by St. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 1, this was made felony without banefit of clergy, while robbery committed elsewhere was less severely punished. The distinction was abolished by St. 3 & 4 W. & M. c. 9, and in this country it has never prevailed general]y.