TRIBUNAL OF ASYUT. 8 JULY 1924. MM. Mostafa Roushdy Eff. (Pres.); Ahmad Abdellatif Effendi Mohammad Amin Sidky Eff. (JJ.); Abdel Rahman E Gabry Effendi (State Rep.). STATE REPRESENTATIVE v. MOHAMMAD ABDEL RAHMAN RAMADAN. Theft — Aggravating circumstances — Violence — Interpretation — Threat to use arms - Effect.—(Art. 271 P.C.) Although the legislator does not expressively mention in Article 271 P.C. that threat to use arms constitutes an aggravating circumstance of theft, such consideration, however, results from the comparison of Articles 270 and 272 P.C. The fact that the legislator has in these two articles assimilated to violence the threat to use arms implies that it is not intended to exclude such threat out of the aggravating circumstances. Threat, in fact, although it constitutes a moral violence, is not, however, less dangerous than material violence. Consequently, the threat to use arms constitutes an aggravating circumstance of theft within the meaning of Article 271 P.C. whether it is exercised for the purpose of facilitating the committing of the offence or simply with view of facilitating the escape of the offender, so long as it is exercised by this latter in case of flagrant delict.