A man went into a bank.
Having a jacket over his hand, he said: I have a gun, give me the money or I shoot.

He did not show the gun.
Persuasive precedent.

Private detectives tried to get information about a woman.
They said to the maid that she should get some letters of her mistress and give them to the detectives.
If she did not do that they would tell the police that her boyfriend was a German (he was not, but he would be imprisoned nevertheless).
She suffered a nervous shock.

St. George had an argument with Mr Durant and took out a gun.
Before he could shoot another person prevented him from shooting.

A gamekeeper found some poachers, but they were stronger and knocked him down.
The gamekeeper said, 'Get out the knives'.

Words are sufficient.

A man was told to leave.
At that moment he became a trespasser because he did not leave.
The other one said, 'If you do not leave, we will break your neck'.

Rozsa threatened to punch Samuels with his fist.
Samuels took out a knife and said, 'I will cut you into pieces'.

Excessive force (guns to guns, knife to knife, otherwise self-defence).

Smith wanted to frighten a woman who sat in her house through a window.
Everything was closed.

The woman was frightened.

A person wanted to hit another.
A third man took his arm and thus stopped him hitting the other person.

They had an argument.
T put his hand at his sword, holding it for self-defence ('If there were no judges in town').
S drew his sword and hit him in the eyes.

T's words negated the intention.