State v. Broderick
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from, St. Louis Criminal Court. I. The snatching of tlie chain with merely force enough to break it from the watch, and straighten the hook in the button hole, is not the violence intended by the statute. (1 Russ. Grim., pp. 67, 72, 871, note e.; Rose. Crim. Ev., [Ed. 1836] pp. 734, 740, 898; 2 Fost., 708 ; 2 East P. 0., 702; State vs. Johns, 5 Jones, N. O., 164; People vs. Hall, 6 Park. Or. Rep., 651; MeOlosky vs. People, 5 Park. Or. Rep., 307.) II.
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Appeal from, St. Louis Criminal Court. I. The snatching of tlie chain with merely force enough to break it from the watch, and straighten the hook in the button hole, is not the violence intended by the statute. (1 Russ. Grim., pp. 67, 72, 871, note e.; Rose. Crim. Ev., [Ed. 1836] pp. 734, 740, 898; 2 Fost., 708 ; 2 East P. 0., 702; State vs. Johns, 5 Jones, N. O., 164; People vs. Hall, 6 Park. Or. Rep., 651; MeOlosky vs. People, 5 Park. Or. Rep., 307.) II. The violence, to constitute robbery, should occur before the taking, and induce the surrender. (Wagn. Stat., p. 456, § 20; Wliart. Am.…
1Opinion of the CourtWagner, Judge
The accused was indicted and convicted of robbery in the first degree, and the facts show that at about two-o’clock in the night time, the prosecutor was walking along one of the streets in the city of St. Louis, and that he had exposed on his person a watch chain, one end of which was fastened by a hook to the button hole of his vest, and the other to a watch *319in his vest pocket; that defendant and another person came out of an alley and walked across the pavement in front of the prosecutor, and that defendant suddenly turned around and, without saying anything, seized prosecutor’s watch…
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