1927 Ind. Acts 53-54
| dc.coverage.spatial | Indiana | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T00:09:09Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T01:37:51Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T01:34:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1927 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Crimes-Burglary with Explosives, Electricity or Gas-Punishment, ch. 19, § 1: Prohibited breaking into and entering, with intent to commit a felony, and attempts to open or attempt to open any vault, safe, or other secure place by the use of nitroglycerin, dynamite, gunpowder, or any other explosive, or by the use of electricity to burn or melt, or use oxycetyline gas, or any other gas to open such containers, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives, electricity, or gas. Violators shall be imprisoned not less than ten years. | |
| dc.description.exceptions | Licensed individuals allowed | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Indiana, That any person who, with intent to commit a felony, breaks into and enters, either by day or night, any building, whether inhabited or not, and opens or attempts to open any vault, safe or other secure place by the use of nitroglycerin, dynamite, gunpowder or any other explosive, or by the use of electricity as a motive or burning or melting power or agency, or in any form, or by any electrical means whatsoever, or by the use of oxycetyline gas, or by any gas in any form whatsoever, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives, electricity or gas, as the case may be, and on conviction thereof shall be imprisoned for not less than ten years. | |
| dc.description.summary | This section defines a crime called "burglary with explosives, electricity, or gas." It states that anyone who breaks into a building with the intent to commit a felony and attempts to open a vault, safe, or secure place using explosives, electricity, or gas-based methods is guilty of this offense. Upon conviction, the person must be imprisoned for at least ten years. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3835 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/Laws_of_the_State_of_Indiana_Passed_at_t/cS44AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA53&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | USE OF EXPLOSIVES WHILE COMMITTING A CRIME | |
| dc.title | 1927 Ind. Acts 53-54 |