Robbery (OF03) Flashcards
Elements of Robbery
- Theft
- Accompanied by violence OR accompanied by threats of violence
- To any person OR to any property
- Used to extort the property stolen OR to prevent or overcome resistance to the property being stolen
What are the offences of ‘Aggravated Robbery?’
- A person robs any person and, at the time, before or after the robbery, causes grievous bodily harm to any person OR
- Being together with any other person or persons, robs any person OR
- A person armed with an offensive weapon or instrument (which includes a firearm), robs any other person.
What are the offences of ‘Assault with intent to rob?’
- Any person assaults a person with the intention to rob them
- Provides a penalty of 14 years where a person assaults another person with intent to rob them
- Provides a penalty of 7 years where someone assaults any person with intent to rob that person or any other person, but there are none of the aggravated factors
What are the offences of ‘Demanding with intent to steal?’
Everyone is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years who with menaces or by any threat, demands any property from any persons with intent to steal it.
Define ‘Theft’
The point where possession of the property is obtained by the thief, even momentarily.
Define ‘Accompanied by violence’
Violence before or at the time of theft
Define ‘To any person of property’
The person who has been threatened by violence
Define ‘Used to extort the property stolen’
To obtain property by violence or intimidation, or to extract forcibly
Define ‘To prevent or overcome resistance to the property being stolen’
Where violence, rather than threats of violence, is exercised.
EXAMPLE: Knocking a person to the ground so they will not have opportunity to resist.
