1920 La. Acts 170
Abstract
An Act Defining the Crime of Burglary with Explosives and Providing the Punishment Therefor,§ 1-2: any persons who, with intent to commit crime, breaks 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 use of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder or any other explosive, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives.
Summary
This law created the offense of burglary with explosives, making it a crime to break into a building with intent to commit a crime and use explosives to open or attempt to open a safe, vault, or other secure container. Conviction carried a penalty of 5 to 25 years of hard labor imprisonment.
Law Text
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, That 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 use of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder or any other explosive, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives. Section 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That any person duly convicted of burglary with explosives shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor for a term of not less than five nor more than twenty-five years.
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Categories
USE OF EXPLOSIVES WHILE COMMITTING A CRIME