Robbery
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
crimes, is the felonious and forcible taking from the person of another, of goods or money to any value, by violence or putting him in fear.
4 Bl: Com. 243.
By his person, but also from his presence when it is done with violence and inst his consent.
1 Hale, P. C. 633; 2 Russ. Crimes, 6].
The taking must be by violence or putting the owner in fear, but both these circumstances need not concur, for if a man should be knocked down and then robbed while he is insensible the offence is still a robbery.
4 Binn. R. 379.
And if the party be put in fear by threats and then robbed, it is not necessary there should be any greater violence. This offence differs from a larceny from rbot the person in this, that in the latter there is no violence, while in the A former the crime is incomplete with- BERK out an actual or constructive force.
Ib. Vide 2 Swift’s Dig. 298.