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SUBPART B.  BY MISAPPROPRIATION WITH VIOLENCE

TO THE PERSON

§64.  Armed robbery

A.  Armed robbery is the taking of anything of value belonging to another from the person of another or that is in the immediate control of another, by use of force or intimidation, while armed with a dangerous weapon.

B.  Whoever commits the crime of armed robbery shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than ten years and for not more than ninety-nine years, without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.

Amended by Acts 1958, No. 380, §1; Acts 1962, No. 475, §1; Acts 1966, Ex. Sess., No. 5, §1; Acts 1983, No. 70, §1; Acts 1999, No. 932, §1, eff. July 9, 1999.