Supreme Court of California

Defendant's convictions for robbery arising from a scheme of purchasing gift cards with re-encoded payment cards are reversed and remanded, where the Court of Appeal erred in concluding that theft by false pretenses can satisfy the "felonious taking" requirement of robbery because the words "felonious taking" in the robbery definition were intended to refer only to theft committed by larceny and not to theft by false pretenses.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/26/2013
• Published 08/26/2013

Judges

• KENNARD

Court

• Supreme Court of California

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