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Smith v. State

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  • 82 Miss. 793

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law. Robbery. Indictment. Code 1892, § 1284.</p> <p>Under Code 1892, § 1284, defining robbery as the felonious taking of th'e personal property of another in his presence or from his person and against his will, by violence to Ms person or by putting him in fear of some immediate injury to his person, an indictment seeking to charge a robbery by taking property from the person of another- by putting him in fear, etc., is fatally defective if it omit to charge either that the person said to have been robbed was put in fear of some immediate danger to his person or that the property was taken from his person.</p>

Judges: Whitfield

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