People v. Stickman

Citations

• 34 Cal. 242

Syllabus

<p>“ House ” in Statutory Definition of Burglary.—By the amendatory statute of 1858, (Statutes, p. 206,) defining the crime of burglary, the word “ house ” was made to include every structure which has sides, walls, and a roof, regardless of the fact whether they are at the time, or ever have been, inhabited by members of the human family.</p> <p>Idem.—The said amendment of the statute, by the substitution of the words (< any house, room, apartment, or tenement” for “ any dwelling house, or any other house whatever,” as used in the statute of 1850, (Stats, p. 235, Sec. 58,) was not made for the purpose of narrowing the previous definition, but to exclude the idea that an entry into an unoccupied room or apartment of a dwelling house, was not burglary.</p>