Liability 235(b)

Question 1

Aggravated Robbery

Section and Penalty

Answer 1

Section 235(b) Crimes Act 1961

14 Years Imprisonment

Question 2

Aggravated Robbery

Ingredients

Answer 2

.1 Being together with any other person
OR
Persons

.2 Robs

.3 Any person

Question 3

.1 Being together with any other person

OR

Persons

Answer 3

Being together with:
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.

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Being together involves two or more persons having the common intention to use their combined force, either in any event or as circumstances might require, directly in the perpetration of the crime.
R v Galey

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

Question 4

Robs

Answer 4

Robbery:
- Theft
- Accompanied by violence or threats of violence,
- To any person or property,
- Used to extort the property stolen or to prevent or overcome resistance to it being stolen.
Sec. 234(1), Crimes Act 1961

Question 5

Any person

Answer 5

Person:

Gender neutral, proven by judicial notice and circumstantial evidence.