Every person who shall feloniously take the personal property of another, in his presence or from his person and against his will, by violence to his person or by putting such person in fear of some immediate injury to his person, shall be guilty of robbery.
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-3-73
Robbery; definition
Applied in 83 court decisions — leading case 481 So. 2d 203 - Fisher v. State (1985)
Most recently applied in United States v. Tyren Cervenak (April 2025)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 4 (55); 1857, ch. 64, art. 220; 1871, § 2674; 1880, § 2944; 1892, § 1284; 1906, § 1361; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1097; 1930, § 1126; …
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