Woodland Oil Co. v. Lawrence

How courts have described this case

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• “It has been decided that one is justified in using any degree of force against a robber holding him up with a pistol. . .”
• “it is no defence for the associates engaged with others in the commission of a robbery, that they did not intend to take life in its perpetration, or that they forbade their companions to kill”
• “it is no defence for the associates engaged with others in the commission of a robbery, that they did not intend to take life in its perpetration, or that they forbade their companions to kill”
• extreme atrocity or cruelty for jury to decide where defendant testified that victim swung a lantern at him when told to put his hands up and gunshot that hit victim was fired only to frighten victim; defendant then struck victim two or three times on the head

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).