State v. Brooks
Annotate this CaseIn a court-tried case, Defendant was found guilty of robbery in the second degree for robbing a bank. Defendant appealed, arguing that the trial court erred by overruling his motion for judgment of acquittal because the State did not present sufficient evidence that he used or threatened to immediately use physical force against the bank teller. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that there was sufficient evidence that Defendant’s actions constituted a threat of immediate physical force to the bank teller for the purpose of both defeating resistance to the theft of the bank’s money and compelling its surrender.
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