If the property be taken without any sensible or material force, the crime is larceny and not robbery.174

So if the property be taken by means of some trick without force or violence the offense is not robbery.175

If one by any means puts another in fear causing a reasonable apprehension of danger to his person and while such fear exists takes his property, that is sufficient without force.176

But putting one in fear by merely threatening to prosecute him for some crime is not sufficient.177

The property taken by robbery must be that of another; but it is not necessary that the person from whom it was taken should be the owner, a special property in him is all that is required.178

The law requiring that the property taken must be that of another, the accused having lost his money at unlawful gaming commits no offense by compelling the winner to return it to him by pointing a pistol at him.179

172 3 Greenl. Ev., Sec. 225; McClain Cr. Law, Sec. 471. 173 State vs. Carr, 43 Iowa, 418;

Hughes Cr. Law, Sec. 764. 174 Hall vs. People, 171 Ill., 542;

Gimons vs. State (Fla.), 25 So., 881; 3 Greenl. Ev., Sec. 229. 175 Shrim vs. State, 64 Ind., 13;

Bussy vs. State, 71 Ga., 100. 176 State vs. Carr, 43 Iowa, 418.

177 People vs. McDaniels, 1 Park Cr. (N. Y.), 198; Long vs. State, 12 Ga., 293.

178 State vs. Gorham, 55 N. H, 152;

People vs. Vice, 21 Cal., 34; State vs. Ah Soi, 5 Nev., 99; Smedley vs. State, 30 Tex., 215; People vs. Clark, 106 Cal., 32.