Parks v. State

The only statute on the subject of robbery in this state is section 5460 of the Code of 1923, which merely prescribes the punishment for the commission of this common-law offense.. In other words, there is no statutory robbery in Alabama.

Robbery, at common law, is an offense against both person and property, and is briefly defined as the felonious taking of •money, or goods of value, from the person of another, or in his presence, by violence or putting him in fear.

The form in Code 1923, p. 492 (form 96), is sufficient to charge the offense of robbery. In the indictment in the instant case…