Illinois Supreme Court· 5/18/1979

People v. Patton

Citations

389 N.E.2d 1174
76 Ill. 2d 45
27 Ill. Dec. 766
1979 Ill. LEXIS 312

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snatching \without any sensible or material violence to the person\ is theft, not robbery [citation omitted]
removing an article of value attached to the owner’s person or clothes “is not robbery unless the article in question ... is so attached to the person or his clothes as to require some force to effect its removal”
“[W]here an article is taken . . . without any sensible or material violence to the person . . . the offense will be held to be theft from the person rather than robbery.”
purse snatching did not constitute robbery where “the purse was gone before [the victim] realized what had happened,” even though the defendant’s act of grabbing the purse from the victim’s “fingertips” had “throw[n] her arm back ‘a little bit’ ”
“where it appeared that the article was taken without any sensible or material violence to the person . . . rather by sleight of hand and adroitness than by open violence, and without any struggle on his part, it is merely larceny from the person”
discussing “sufficient violence” under common law approach

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Judges: Ward

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