1921 N.C. Sess. Laws 105
Abstract
Pub. Laws, ch. 5, §§ 1-2: 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, or acetylene torch, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives
Summary
This act establishes that breaking and entering any building with intent to commit a crime using explosives or an acetylene torch constitutes "burglary with explosives." Violators face the same punishment as second-degree burglary under Section 4233 of the Consolidated Statutes. All conflicting laws are repealed, and the act takes effect immediately upon ratification.
Law Text
SECTION 1. Any person who, with intent to commit crime, breaks and enters, either by day or by night, any building, whether inhabited or not, opens or attempts to open any vault, safe, or other secure place by use of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder, or any other explosive, or acetylene torch, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives.
SEC. 2. Any person convicted under this act shall be punished as for burglary in the second degree, as provided in section forty-two hundred and thirty-three of the Consolidated Statutes.
SEC. 3. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.
SEC. 4. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification.
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USE OF EXPLOSIVES WHILE COMMITTING A CRIME