Breaking and entering
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Sample v. Bailey (2005)
Most recently applied in United States v. Tyren Cervenak (April 2025)
Effective: July 1, 1996; Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 2 - 121st General Assembly
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(A) No person by force, stealth, or deception, shall trespass in an unoccupied structure, with purpose to commit therein any theft offense, as defined in section 2913.01 of the Revised Code, or any felony.
(B) No person shall trespass on the land or premises of another, with purpose to commit a felony.
(C) Whoever violates this section is guilty of breaking and entering, a felony of the fifth degree.
Last updated December 10, 2021 at 3:06 PM
Official source: Ohio Laws & Administrative Rules (Legislative Service Commission). Reproduced from public-domain Ohio statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.