Pride v. State

The defendant was indicted for robbery, and the indictment was framed under the act of 1903, amending the Penal Code, §151; the charge was laid substantially in the language of the amendment. A demurrer was interposed on the grounds, that the indictment failed to allege that the robbery was committed by force or intimidation, and because the act of 1903 created a new statutory offense, and that no penalty was prescribed for the violation of the act. The demurrer was overruled, and the points thereby made are now under review.

Penal Code, §151, defines robbery: “Robbery is the wrongful,…