Morgan v. Commonwealth

VANCE, Justice.

The question is whether a conviction for robbery may be sustained in a case in which physical force is used against one person in order to accomplish a theft of property from another person, but where no property is taken from the person against whom the physical force is used or threatened.

These two cases arise from an incident involving a single theft of property from a household. The appellant in each of the above-styled cases participated in the theft. Each appellant was armed with a deadly weapon. The household was occupied by the owner’s daughter and a friend at the time…