A. For the purposes of this section, "serious bodily injury" means the same as that term is defined in § 18.2-51.4.
B. Any person who commits robbery is guilty of a felony and shall be punished as follows:
1. Any person who commits robbery and causes serious bodily injury to or the death of any other person is guilty of a Class 2 felony.
2. Any person who commits robbery by using or displaying a firearm, as defined in § 18.2-308.2:2, in a threatening manner is guilty of a Class 3 felony.
3. Any person who commits robbery by using physical force not resulting in serious bodily injury or by using or displaying a deadly weapon other than a firearm in a threatening manner is guilty of a Class 5 felony.
4. Any person who commits robbery by using threat or intimidation or any other means not involving a deadly weapon is guilty of a Class 6 felony.
Code 1950, § 18.1-91; 1960, c. 358; 1966, c. 361; 1975, cc. 14, 15, 605; 1978, c. 608; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 534.
Notes of Decisions
Wiggins v. Commonwealth, 622 S.E.2d 774 (Va. Ct. App. 2005).
· cites it 12× “Procedural History On December 1, 2003, a grand jury indicted Wiggins for three counts of robbery, in violation of Code § 18.2-58, three counts of abduction with intent to extort money, in violation of Code § 18.”
United States v. Jorge Torrez, 869 F.3d 291 (4th Cir. 2017).
· cites it 6× “Torrez was convicted of committing robbery in violation of Va. Code § 18.2-58 and abduction with nefarious intent in violation of Va.”
Seaton v. Commonwealth, 595 S.E.2d 9 (Va. Ct. App. 2004).
· cites it 4× “The grand jurors charged Seaton with robbery under Code § 18.2-58. At trial, both the Commonwealth and Seaton asked various questions seeking to prompt the eyewitnesses to describe their reactions to the incident.”
Terra Nyree Hines v. Commonwealth of Virginia, 721 S.E.2d 792 (Va. Ct. App. 2012).
· cites it 8× “Terra Nyree Hines (appellant) pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery in violation of Code § 18.2-58 and one count of use of a firearm in the commission of one of the robberies in violation of Code § 18.”
Fishback v. Commonwealth, 532 S.E.2d 629 (Va. 2000).
· cites it 8× “On March 24, 1997, the grand jury of Fauquier County returned indictments against Richard David Fishback charging him with robbery, Code § 18.2-58, three counts of abduction, Code § 18.”
Jordan v. Commonwealth, 347 S.E.2d 152 (Va. Ct. App. 1986).
· cites it 8× “2-58 the General Assembly has prescribed the range of punishment for robbery committed by specified means: If any person commit robbery by partial strangulation, or suffocation, or by striking or beating, or by other violence to the person, or by assault or otherwise putting a…”
James v. Commonwealth, 674 S.E.2d 571 (Va. Ct. App. 2009).
· cites it 4× “James of conspiracy to commit robbery in violation of Code §§ 18.2-58 and 18.2-22. On appeal, James challenges the sufficiency of the evidence used to convict him.”
Brown v. Com., 688 S.E.2d 185 (Va. 2010).
· cites it 4× “Robbery in violation of Code § 18.2-58 is a violent juvenile felony under Code § 16.”
Commonwealth v. Swann (ORDER), 776 S.E.2d 265 (Va. 2015).
· cites it 2× “2-48 ), two counts of robbery (Code § 18.2-58 ), and statutory burglary (Code § 18.”
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— Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-58(A) — 1 case
— Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-58(B)(1) — 2 cases
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