---
title: "Armed Robbery Defense"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/crim-criminal-law-en/armed-robbery-defense-en"
field: "Criminal Law"
description: "Article 179 CC Georgia: robbery — imprisonment 5 to 15 years. Four levels, elements and defense. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-10-14"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Armed Robbery Defense

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/crim-criminal-law-en/armed-robbery-defense-en

## Robbery — Article 179 and Its Four Levels

Robbery belongs among the grave crimes of the Criminal Code of Georgia: the penalty under this article begins at five years and reaches fifteen. The law defines robbery as an attack on another's movable property for the purpose of its unlawful appropriation, committed with violence dangerous to life or health, or with the threat of applying such violence. If such a charge has touched you, it is important to know from the first day on which elements this composition rests and what raises the penalty — it is in precisely these details that the possibilities of the defense lie.

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### What does robbery mean under the law?

An attack on another's movable property for the purpose of unlawful appropriation, committed with violence dangerous to life or health, or with the threat of such violence.

### How is the basic composition punished?

By imprisonment from five to seven years.

### What raises the penalty to six-nine years?

Unlawful entry into premises or another depository, commission by a group, and commission against a transport vehicle.

### And to eight-twelve years?

Commission more than once, unlawful entry into an apartment, and the purpose of seizing property in a large amount.

### When does the penalty reach eleven to fifteen years?

When committed by an organized group, or by a person convicted twice or more for appropriation or extortion.