5-24-2. TYPES OF FORCE OR FEAR NECESSARY TO CONSTITUTE ROBBERY.

To consider robbery, the amount or degree or force or fear employed as immaterial. However, the force or fear must be employed either to obtain or retain possession of the property or to prevent or overcome resistance to the taking. If force or fear is employed merely as a means of escape, it does not constitute robbery.

The fear which constitutes an element of the offense of robbery may be either;

1. The fear of an injury, immediate or future, to the person or property of the person robbed, or of any relative of his or member of his family; or
2. The fear of an immediate injury to the person or property of anyone in the company of the person robbed at the time of the robbery.