Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)

Marginal note:Robbery

343 Every one commits robbery who

• (a) steals, and for the purpose of extorting whatever is stolen or to prevent or overcome resistance to the stealing, uses violence or threats of violence to a person or property;

• (b) steals from any person and, at the time he steals or immediately before or immediately thereafter, wounds, beats, strikes or uses any personal violence to that person;

• (c) assaults any person with intent to steal from him; or

• (d) steals from any person while armed with an offensive weapon or imitation thereof.