Supreme Court of Arkansas January 25, 1896 (Routt v. State)

lead-opinion

Riddick, J.,

(after stating the facts). The judgment of the circuit court must be reversed, for the facts in proof do not make out a case of robbery. Robbery, as defined by the text books and the previous decisions of this court, is a felonious and forcible taking of the property of another from his person or in his presence, against his will, by violence, or putting him in fear.