CHAPTER 563

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 18-160 and 18-161 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to burglary.
[H 385]

Approved April 3, 1952

. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 18-160 and 18-161 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, be
amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 18-160. Entering dwelling house, etc., with intent to commit
murder, rape or robbery.—If any person in the night enter without break-
ing or in the daytime break and enter a dwelling house or an outhouse
adjoining thereto and occupied therewith or in the nighttime enter with-
out breaking or break and enter either in the daytime or nighttime any
office, shop, storehouse, warehouse, banking house, or other house, or any
ship, 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 deemed guilty of statutory burglary and shall be confined
in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than eighteen years.

§ 18-161. Same; with intent to commit larceny.—If any person do
any of the acts mentioned in the preceding section, with intent to commit
larceny, or any felony other than murder, rape or robbery, he shall be
deemed guilty of statutory burglary and shall be confined in the peniten-
tiary not less than one year nor more than ten years or, in the discretion of
the court or of the jury trying the case, confined in jail not exceeding
twelve months and fined not exceeding five hundred dollars.