Robbery
Applied in 133 court decisions — leading case Grillot v. State (2003)
Most recently applied in 2025 Ark. App. 319 - Keith Lamont Bing v. State of Arkansas (May 2025)
Acts 1975, No. 280, § 2103; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-2103; Acts 1987, No. 934, § 1.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) A person commits robbery if, with the purpose of committing a felony or misdemeanor theft or resisting apprehension immediately after committing a felony or misdemeanor theft, the person employs or threatens to immediately employ physical force upon another person.
(2) Robbery is a Class B felony.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.