Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 265 § 21

Current through Chapters 1 to 249 and Chapters 253 to 255 of the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 265:21 - Stealing by confining or putting in fear

Whoever, with intent to commit larceny or any felony, confines, maims, injures or wounds, or attempts or threatens to kill, confine, maim, injure or wound, or puts any person in fear, for the purpose of stealing from a building, bank, safe, vault or other depository of money, bonds or other valuables, or by intimidation, force or threats compels or attempts to compel any person to disclose or surrender the means of opening any building, bank, safe, vault or other depository of money, bonds, or other valuables, shall whether he succeeds or fails in the perpetration of such larceny or felony, be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life or for any term of years.

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 265, § 21