PER CURIAM.
R.P. was adjudicated delinquent based upon the trial court's determination that R.P. committed a robbery when he reached into the front of an elderly woman's dress and snatched her purse. R.P. correctly argues that absent evidence of "force, violence, assault, or putting in fear," § 812.13(1), Fla. Stat. (1983), his conviction of robbery cannot stand. We agree.
The law is well settled that picking a pocket or snatching a purse is not robbery...
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