Chap. 33.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4438 of the Code of Virginia
relating to entry of certain places with intent to commit certain crimes, anc
to the punishment therefor. [H 54

Approved February 19, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section forty-four hundred thirty-eight of the Code of Vir-
ginia be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 4438. Entering dwelling-house or other house, vessel, or car
in the night or, etc., with intent to commit murder, rape, or robbery ; how
punished.—If any person in the night enter without breaking or in the
daytime break and enter a dwelling-house or an out-house adjoining
thereto and occupied therewith or in the night-time enter without break-
ing or break and enter either in the daytime or night-time any office,
shop, store-house, warehouse, banking-house, or other house, or any
ship or vessel or river craft or any railroad car, or any automobile, truck,
or trailer, if such automobile, truck or trailer is used as a dwelling or
place of human habitation, with intent to commit murder, rape, or rob-
bery, he shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than three nor more
than fifteen years.