CHAP. 77.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3704 of the Code of
Virginia of 1887.

Approved March 4, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirty-seven hundred and four of the Code of Virginia,
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§3704. If any person be guilty of burglary, he shall be pun-
ished with death, or, in the discretion of the jury, by confinement
in the penitentiary not less than five nor more than eighteen
years. If any person break and enter the dwelling house of
another in the night time, with intent to commit larceny, he shall
be deemed guilty of burglary, though the thing stolen, or in-
tended to be stolen, be of less value than twenty dollars. If
any person have in his possession any tools, implements, or other
outfit known as burglar’s tools, implements, or outfit, with intent
to commit burglary, robbery, or larceny, he shall be deemed
guilty of a felony, and be punished by confinement in the peni-
tentiary not less than five nor more than eighteen years. The
possession of such burglarious tools, implements, or outfit, shall
be prima facie evidence of an intent to commit burglary, robbery
or larceny.