1929 Me. Acts 206
Abstract
An Act Defining the Crime of Burglary with Explosives and Providing the Punishment Therefor, ch. 244, §§ 1-2: § 1. Burglary with explosives, defined. Any person who, with intent to commit crime, breaks, and enters, either by day or by night, any building, whether inhabited or not, and opens or attempts to open any vault, safe or other secure place by the use of nitroglycerine, dynamite, gunpowder or any other explosive, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives. § 2. Penalty. Any person duly convicted of burglary with explosives shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of not less than twenty nor more than forty years.
Summary
Section 1 defines “burglary with explosives” as breaking and entering any building, inhabited or not, with intent to commit a crime and using explosives such as nitroglycerine, dynamite, or gunpowder to open or attempt to open a vault, safe, or other secure container. Section 2 establishes the penalty for conviction as imprisonment for a minimum of 20 years and a maximum of 40 years.
Law Text
Sec. 1. Burglary with explosives, defined. Any person who, with intent to commit crime, breaks, and enters, either by day or by night, any building, whether inhabited or not, and opens or attempts to open any vault, safe or other secure place by the use of nitroglycerine, dynamite, gunpowder or any other explosive, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives.
Sec. 2. Penalty. Any person duly convicted of burglary with explosives shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of not less than twenty nor more than forty years.
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Categories
USE OF EXPLOSIVES WHILE COMMITTING A CRIME