John Hessin Clarke

“ Men do not feloniously put others in fear for the purpose of seizing their own property.
It is not necessary that the charge in court-martial proceedings should be framed with the technical precision of a common law indictment and we cannot doubt that the one in this case clearly shows jurisdiction in the court over the accused and over the offense with which he was charged, and that the latter was sufficiently described to advise defendant of the time and place and circumstances under which it was claimed he had committed the crime, to enable him to make any defense he may have had. ”

“ This has been accepted as an accurate and authoritative definition of robbery from Blackstone, book IV, p. 243 (Cooley's Edition) to Bishop's New Criminal Law, vol. II, §§ 1177, 1178. Taking property from the presence of another feloniously and by putting him in fear is equivalent to taking it from his personal protection and is, in law, a taking from the person. ”