State v. . Lunsford

The defendants emphasize their exceptions to the charge. They insist, among other things, that the trial judge erred in failing to instruct the jury as to the felonious intent essential to the crime of robbery, and in restricting the jury to the return of either a verdict of guilty of robbery or a verdict of not guilty. The record presently presented compels us to concede that the position of the defendants in these respects is well taken.

Writers upon criminal law' often suggest that robbery is merely an aggravated form of larceny. 54 C. J., Eobbery, section 11. It has been defined with…