Case ID: ny-sup-ct_13/html/0657-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Smith, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

EDWARD TICKNER, Plaintiff in Error, v. THE PEOPLE, Defendants in Error.
    
      Burglary — degree offeree.
    
    Where the door of a house is tightly 'closed, without being either bolted, locked, or fastened, it is burglary to open it and enter the house with the purpose of stealing. . (2 Whart. Crim. Law, § 1541; Curtis v. Hubbard, 1 Hill, 338 ; Bex v. Bussell, 1 Wood, 397; State v. Seed, 20 Iowa, 413; People v. Bush, 3 Parker, 552.)
    Writ, of error to the Court of Sessions of the county of Onondaga, to review the conviction of the plaintiff in error of burglary in the second degree.
    
      
      Ba/udall & Bandall, for plaintiff in error. . William James, district attorney, for defendants in error.
   Opinion by

Smith, J.

Present — Mulles, P. J., Smith and Gilbert, JJ.

Judgment affirmed.