Case Name: Commonwealth vs. Brooks
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1864-06-23
Citations: 1 Duv. 150
Docket Number: 
Parties: Commonwealth vs. Brooks.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 62
Pages: 150–151

Head Matter:
CASE 2 — INDICTMENT
JUNE 23.
Commonwealth vs. Brooks.
APPEAL PROM THE WEBSTER CIRCUIT COURT.
An indictment charging the defendant with having taken a mare, the property of R., “in his presence, and against his will, by putting him in fear of some immediate injury to his person,” contains facts sufficient to constitute robbery at common law.
J. M. Harlan, Attorney General, for Commonwealth,
cited Wharton's Crim. Law, 629.
Cissell & Vance, for appellee,
cited 2 Bisk. Crim. Law, sec. 966; Wharton's Crim. Law, sec. 285 ; 2 B. Mon., 249; Crim. Code, secs. 121, 123, 128.

Opinion:
CHIEF JUSTICE DUVALL
delivered the opinion op the court:
We are not informed, either from the record, or from any suggestions of counsel, of the objections to which this indictment is supposed to be liable.
We think the indictment is sufficient. It charges the defendant with having feloniously taken a mare, the property of William Rayburn, "in his presence, and against his will, by putting him in fear of some immediate injury to his person." The facts thus stated are all that are material or necessary to constitute the crime of robbery, as defined by the common Jaw.
The judgment of the eourt below sustaining a demurrer to the indictment is therefore reversed, and .the cause remanded for further proceedings.