Lash v. State

The sanctity of Elmore v. State, (1978) Ind., 382 N.E.2d 893 and McKinley v. State, (1980) Ind., 400 N.E.2d 1378, has been violated. One who knowingly robs a person of business property and personal property at the same time commits two robbery offenses.

Elmore is the landmark case setting the standard as to what constitutes separate offenses. The focus is on “[w]hether or not the offenses to be prosecuted and punished are the same, and not whether the offenses spring from the same act or operative circumstances.” Elmore v. State, at 897. Each conviction of a separate offense of robbery…