State v. Meadows

Citations

• 22 W. Va. 766
• 1883 W. Va. LEXIS 99

Syllabus

<p>1. The statute does not attempt to define burglary, except that it declares, if a person break and enter a dwelling-house in the niglit-time with intent to commit larceny, although the thing stolon, or intended to be stolen, is of less value than twenty dollars, he is guilty of burglary, (p. 709.)</p> <p>2. An indictment for burglary must charge, that the offence was “burglariously” committed ; otherwise it is bad. (p. 770.)</p>