Bill Text: WV SB196 | 2011 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to criminal offenses of robbery and attempted robbery
Sponsorship: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-03-12 - On 3rd reading, House Calendar [SB196 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2011-SB196-Comm_Sub.html
A BILL to amend and reenact §61-2-12 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the criminal offenses of robbery and attempted robbery; creating offenses of robbery or attempted robbery causing serious bodily injury, robbery or attempted robbery with the discharge of a firearm, robbery or attempted robbery causing bodily injury; robbery by presentation or threat of a deadly weapon; creating offenses of general robbery or attempted robbery; and establishing criminal penalties.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §61-2-12 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON.
§61-2-12. Robbery or attempted robbery; penalties.
(a) Any person who commits or attempts to commit robbery and in the course thereof discharges a firearm or causes a victim or victims serious bodily injury as defined in section one, article eight-b of this chapter is guilty of the felony offense of aggravated robbery and upon conviction thereof shall be imprisoned in a state correctional facility for a determinate sentence of not less than twenty years.
(b) Any person who commits or attempts to commit robbery and in the course thereof causes a victim or victims bodily injury as defined in section one, article eight-b of this chapter is guilty of the felony offense of robbery causing bodily injury and upon conviction, shall be imprisoned in a state correctional facility for a determinate sentence of not less than five nor more than sixty years.
(c) Any person who commits or attempts to commit robbery by the presentation of a firearm or other deadly weapon or the pretense of possessing same is guilty of the felony offense of robbery by the use or threat of a deadly weapon and upon conviction thereof shall be imprisoned in a state correctional facility for a determinate sentence of not less than ten years nor more than fifty years.
(d) Any person who commits robbery or attempted robbery in a manner other than those set forth in subsections (a), (b), or (c) of this section shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction shall be imprisoned in a state correctional facility for not less than five nor more than eighteen years.
