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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 8. OFFENSES INVOLVING THEFT · Article 2. ROBBERY

16-8-40. Robbery.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    A person commits the offense of robbery when, with intent to commit theft, he takes property of another from the person or the immediate presence of another:#

    1. (1)

      By use of force;#

    2. (2)

      By intimidation, by the use of threat or coercion, or by placing such person in fear of immediate serious bodily injury to himself or to another; or#

    3. (3)

      By sudden snatching.#

  2. (b)

    A person convicted of the offense of robbery shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than 20 years.#

  3. (c)

    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code section, any person who commits the offense of robbery against a person who is 65 years of age or older shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not less than five nor more than 20 years.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Laws 1833, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 791; Code 1863, § 4286; Code 1868, § 4323; Code 1873, § 4389; Code 1882, § 4389; Penal Code 1895, § 151; Ga. L. 1903, p. 43, § 1; Penal Code 1910, § 148; Code 1933, § 26-2501; Ga. L. 1957, p. 261, § 1; Code 1933, § 26-1901, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 900, § 4.

Law reviews

For survey article on criminal law and procedure, see 34 Mercer L. Rev. 89 (1982).

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

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