40.40 Definition of an Act. Robbery consists of theft and actual or threatened injury. The degrees of robbery relate to the seriousness of the injury threatened or inflicted upon the victim.
Armed robbery is no longer a separate aggravating factor.
Definition of an Act. An act occurs in the course of committing a theft if it occurs in an attempt to commit theft or in flight after the attempt or commission. This is unusual insofar as it permits a classification of a crime to depend upon acts done after the theft, or burglary has been accomplished. However, the thief's or burglar's willingness to use force against those who would restrain him in flight strongly suggests that he would have employed it, or did employ it, to effect the theft or burglary in the first place. It is no defense to a prosecution of robbery in any of its degrees that there was no theft because the taking was under a claim of right.