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Section 268: Attempted robbery – assault with intent to steal using violence

268.Attempted robbery

(1)Any person who assaults any other person with intent to steal anything and at, immediately before or immediately after the assault, uses or threatens to use actual violence to any person or property in order to obtain the thing intended to be stolen or to prevent or overcome resistance to its being stolen, commits a felony.

(2)Any person who commits a felony under this section is liable—

(a)on conviction by a magistrate’s court, to imprisonment for a term of seven years;

(b)on conviction by the High Court, to imprisonment for life.

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A person commits attempted robbery if they assault someone with the intent to steal, and at the time of the assault, immediately before it, or immedia...

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