Case Name: State vs. Boggs, et al.
Court: Delaware Court of General Sessions
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1902-09-18
Citations: 4 Penne. 95
Docket Number: 
Parties: State vs. Boggs, et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Reports
Volume: 20
Pages: 95–95

Head Matter:
State vs. Boggs, et al.
Criminal Law—Indictment—Breaking and Entering Building in
the day time— Words “ wilfidly and unlawfully ”
essential—Pleading.
In an indictment for breaking and entering a building in the day time the words “wilfully and unlawfully” are essential.
(September 18, 1902.)
Lore, C. J., and Spruance and Boyce, J. J., sitting.
Herbert H. Ward, Attorney-General, for the State.
L. Irving Handy and John W. Brady for the defendants.
Court of General Sessions, New Castle County,
September Term, 1902.
Indictment for Breaking and Entering a building in the day time.
The defendant was indicted as above, under Section 1, Revised Code, 9fO. The indictment alleged that the defendant “feloniously” broke into a building in the day time, etc.
Handy, for defendant, moved to quash the indictment on the ground that the statute (Section 1, Revised Code, 9Jfi) makes this offense a misdemeanor, whereas the indictment charges it as a felony.
Mr, Ward:—However felonious it might be, the words “wilfully” and “unlawfully” are left out, and I consider it a fatal defect.

Opinion:
Lore, C. J.:
—We order the indictment quashed.