Appellate Court of Illinois September 27, 2005, 1-04-1765 (People v. Merchant)

JUSTICE WOLFSON

delivered the opinion of the court:

Felix Frankfurter wrote: “In law, as in life, lines have to be drawn.” Pearce v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 315 U.S. 543, 558, 86 L. Ed. 1016, 1025, 62 S. Ct. 754, 761 (1942) (Frankfurter, J., dissenting, joined by Stone, C.J.). In this case, we are called on to draw the line between theft from a person and robbery of that person.