Clay v. State

1. Sherman Olay was indicted and convicted of the offense of robbery. He made a motion for a new trial, which was overruled, and be excepted. One of the grounds of his motion is that the judge below erred in charging section 151 of the Penal Code, which is as follows : “ Robbery is ’the wrongful, fraudulent, and violent taking of money, goods, or chattels from the person of another by force ¿>r intimidation, without the consent of the owner,” and omitting the amendment thereto added *137by the act of 1903. This act amends the code section by adding thereto: “ or the sudden snatching, taking, or…