State v. Lawrence

Defendant assigns as error portions of the judge’s charge defining robbery and applying the legal elements of the offense to the facts in evidence.

In the preliminary explanation of the law- with respect to robbery the judge stated to the jury: “Robbery, gentlemen of the jury, is the felonious taking of the personal property from the person of another, or in his presence, without his consent or against his will, by violence, intimidation or putting him in fear.”

Robbery, as distinguished from robbery with firearms or other dangerous weapons (G.S. 14-87), is strictly a common law offense and is…