People v. Taylor

I respectfully dissent from the majority holding that the evidence failed to show the requisite force necessary to constitute robbery.

An act asserts sufficient force to constitute robbery where the property is so attached to the victim’s person as to create resistance to the taking. (People v. Patton (1979), 76 Ill. 2d 45, 389 N.E.2d 1174, citing Annot., 42 A.L.R.3d 1381 (1972); 2 R. Anderson, Wharton’s Criminal Law and Procedure §561 (1957); W. LaFave & A. Scott, Criminal Law 696-97 (1972).) Our supreme court, in stating the well-established rule in Patton, cited Rex v. Mason (1820), Russ. &…