TITLE X

Question 1

Elements of Robbery

Answer 1

Elements of robbery in general
1. There is personal property belonging to another;

2. There is unlawful taking of that property;
3. The taking must be with intent to gain; and
4. There is violence against or intimidation of any person, or force upon anything.

Question 2

Robbery Acts Punished

Answer 2

1. When by reason or on occasion of the robbery (taking of personal property belonging to another with intent to gain), the crime of homicide is committed;
2. When the robbery is accompanied by rape or intentional mutilation or arson;
3. When by reason of on occasion of such robbery, any of the physical injuries resulting in insanity, imbecility, impotency or blindness is inflicted;
4. When by reason or on occasion of robbery, any of the physical injuries resulting in the loss of the use of speech or the power to hear or to smell, or the loss of an eye, a hand, a foot, an arm, or a leg or the loss of the use of any such member or incapacity for the work in which the injured person is theretofore habitually engaged is inflicted;
5. If the violence or intimidation employed in the commission of the robbery is carried to a degree unnecessary for the commission of the crime;
6. When in the course of its execution, the offender shall have inflicted upon any person not responsible for the commission of the robbery any of the physical injuries in consequence of which the person injured becomes deformed or loses any other member of his body or loses the sue thereof or becomes ill or incapacitated for the performance of the work in which he is habitually engaged for more than 90 days or the person injured becomes ill or incapacitated for labor for more than 30 days;
7. If the violence employed by the offender does not cause any of the serious physical injuries defined in Article 263, or if the offender employs intimidation only.