Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 262

262. (1) A theft is aggravated by "violence" - (a) where it is accompanied with homicide, bodily harm, or confinement of the person, or with a written or verbal threat to kill, or to inflict a bodily harm, or to cause damage to property; 150 CAP . 9.] CRIMINAL CODE (b) where the thief presents h imself armed, or where the thieves though unarmed present themselves in a number of more than two; (c) where any person scouring the country-side and carrying arms proper, or forming part of an assembly in terms of article 63, sh all, by a written or verbal request, made either directly or through another person, cause to be delivered to him the property of another, although the request be not accompanied with any threat. (2) In order that an act of viol ence may be deemed to aggravate the theft, it shall be sufficient that such act be committed previously to, at the time of, or immediately after the crime, with the object of facilita ting the completion thereof, or of screen ing the offender from punishment or from arrest or from the hue and cry raised by the injured party or by others, or of preventing the recovery of the stolen property or by way of revenge because of impediment placed or attempted to be placed in the way of the theft, or because of the recovery of the stolen property or of the discovery of the thief. Theft aggravated by "means".