Case ID: iowa_116/html/0479-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "McClain, J. —", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

State of Iowa v. C. E. Osborne, Appellant.
    Robbery: defined: Instructions. In a prosecution for robbery, an instruction defining tbe offense as “larceny of property from the person of the owner, accompanied by violence or putting him in fear,” is not erroneous under Code, section 4753, providing that if any person, with fear or violence, or by putting in fear, steal and take from the person of another any property that is the subject of larceny, he is guilty of robbery.
    
      
      Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. W. E. Conrad, Judge.
    Saturday, April 12, 1902.
    
      Mc£Ieñ,y & McHenry for appellant.
    
      Charles W. Mullan Attorney-General, and Chas. A. Van Vleck, Assistant Attorney-General, for tbe state.
   McClain, J. —

The only error assigned is in the giving of an instruction in which robbery is defined as “the larceny of property from _ the person of the owner, accompanied by violence or putting him in fear.” While this is not the language of the definition given in the Code (section 4753), it is we think, equivalent -to that of the Code. See Bouvier’s Law Dictionary (Bawle’s Ed.) sub nom. “Bobbery.” — Affirmed.