Aggravated Robbery - (Two Or More Persons)

Question 1

Act and section

Answer 1

Sec 235 (b) Crimes Act 1961

Question 2

Penalty

Answer 2

14 Years Imprisonment

Question 3

Ingredients

Answer 3

1) Being together with any other persons
2) Robs
3) Any Person

Question 4

Being together with

Answer 4

There must be proof that, in committing the robbery, the defendant was part of a joint enterprise by two or more persons who were physically present at the robbery.

Question 5

Case law:

R v Joyce

Answer 5

Crown must establish that at least two persons were physically present at the time of the robbery was committed or assault occurred.

Question 6

Case law:

R v Galey

Answer 6

Being together in the context of Sec 235 (b) involves two or more persons having a common intention to use combined force either in any event or as circumstances might require, directly in the perpetration of the crime.

Question 7

Robs

Answer 7

Theft accompanied by violence or threats of violence to any person or property used to extort the property stolen or used to overcome resistance to the property being stolen.

Question 8

Any person

Answer 8

Gender neutral proven by judicial notice or circumstantial evidence.