(1) Robbery is the intentional or knowing theft of property from the person of another by violence or putting the person in fear.
(2) Robbery is a Class C felony.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-13-401
Robbery
Applied in 62 court decisions — leading case State v. Banks (2008)
Most recently applied in United States v. Gerald Lynn Campbell (November 2024)
Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1; 1990, ch. 1030, § 16.
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Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.