1907 Mo. Laws 229
Abstract
An Act to Amend Article 3, Chapter 15, Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1899, Relating to Offenses Against Public and Private Property by Adding Two New Sections, to Be Known as Sections 1890a and 1890b, § 1: A person who with the intent to commit some crime, breaks and enters any building in the night time, and, for the purpose of committing any crime, uses or attempts to use nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder, or any other high explosive is guilty of burglary with explosives. § 1890b. Every person who shall be convicted by burglary with explosives, shall be punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than ten, nor more than twenty-five years.
Summary
This 1907 Missouri law created the offense of burglary with explosives, making it a crime to break and enter a building at night with the intent to commit a crime while using or attempting to use explosives such as nitroglycerin, dynamite, gunpowder, or other high explosives. Conviction carried a penalty of 10 to 25 years' imprisonment in the state penitentiary.
Law Text
Section 1. That article 3, chapter 15, Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1899, relating to offenses against public and private property, be amended by adding thereto the following new sections, which shall be as follows:
Section 1890a. A person who, with intent to commit some crime, breaks and enters any building in the night time, and, for the purpose of committing any crime, uses or attempts to use nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder, or any other high explosive, is guilty of burglary with explosives.
Section 1890b. Every person who shall be convicted of burglary with explosives, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than ten nor more than twenty-five years.
Approved March 18, 1907.
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USE OF EXPLOSIVES WHILE COMMITTING A CRIME