PRINTER'S NO. 778
No. 690 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY ZORD, CESSAR AND FISHER, MARCH 10, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LAW AND JUSTICE, MARCH 11, 1975
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, redefining the offense of robbery and
3 adding an additional grade for the offense.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 3701 of Title 18, act of November 25,
7 1970 (P.L.707, No.230)), known as the Pennsylvania Consolidated
8 Statutes, added December 6, 1972 (P.L.1482, No.334), is amended
9 to read:
10 § 3701. Robbery.
11 (a) Offense defined.--
12 (1) A person is guilty of robbery if, in the course of
13 committing a theft, he:
14 (i) inflicts [serious] bodily injury upon another;
15 (ii) threatens another with or intentionally puts
16 him in fear of immediate [serious] bodily injury; [or]
17 (iii) commits or threatens immediately to commit any
18 felony of the first or second degree; or
19 (iv) physically takes or removes property from the
1 person of another by force however slight.
2 (2) An act shall be deemed "in the course of committing
3 a theft" if it occurs in an attempt to commit theft or in
4 flight after the attempt or commission.
5 (b) Grading.--Robbery under subsection (a)(1)(iv) is a
6 felony of the third degree; otherwise, it is a felony of the
7 first degree.
8 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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