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13 Mont. 246

State v. Carroll

Montana Supreme Court

Decided July 31, 1893

Montana Supreme Court · decided 1893-07-31

The defendants were tried before Milburn, J. Statement of the case by the justice delivering the opinion: This is an appeal by the state. The defendants were acquitted. The state excepted to an instruction given by the court, and, reserving the question of law, now prosecutes this appeal. (Criminal Practice Act, § 396.) The information was for burglary.

Relies on Territory of Montana v. Willard · Territory of Montana v. Duncan

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Affirmed · Decided 1893-07-31

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De Witt, J.

¶1The counsel for the state filed an elaborate brief, supported by authorities, to the effect that in proving the burglary it is not necessary to prove the actual commission of the offense, such as larceny or robbery, etc., which the defendant intended to commit, when he made the entering or breaking of the building, but that it is only necessary to prove the defendant’s intent to commit one of the crimes named in the statute when he made the entry.

¶2But that is not the point in this case. To constitute burglary there must be the entry with the intent to commit grand or petit larceny, or any felony. (Criminal Practice Act, § 73.) The entering, and such intent, are two elements going to constitute the offense of burglary. (Territory v. Duncan, 5 Mont. 478; Territory v. Willard, 8 Mont. 328.)

¶3This case is determinable by observing what intent was ■charged in the information. It is found that the intent there charged was to commit the petit larceny of a certain overcoat. No other intent is charged. The information does not allege the intent to commit the larceny of any other goods whatever than this particular overcoat, nor does it clparge the intent to commit any felony. If the intent to steal the overcoat were absent, then no intent to commit grand or petit larceny, or any felony, is charged by the indictment./' The court was, therefore, wholly correct in charging tl , under this indictment, *248alleging, as it did, no intent whatever, except to commit the larceny of the overcoat, that such particular intent must be proved in order to convict the defendants. The judgment is therefore affirmed.

¶4Affirmed

Pemberton, C. J., and Harwood, J., concur.
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