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Robbery

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

The felonious taking and carrying away of the personal property of another from his person or in his presence by violence or by putting him in fear.

2 Clark & Marshall, Crimes, 852.

Robbery includes "larceny" {q. v.), and all the elements that are necessary to constitute larceny are also necessary. The aggravating circumstances necessary to constitute robbery, as distinguished from simple larceny, are: (1) The property must be taken from the person of another (1 Hale, P. C. 532; 39 Ga. 588); but property taken in the presence of the owner is, in contemplation of law, taken from his person (1 Hale, P. C. 532; 72 Iowa, 432; 84 Ga. 660). (2) The taking must not only be without his consent, but it must be accomplished either by violence or by putting him in fear.

25 Ind. 403; 106 Ga.