97-17-37 - Burglary; with explosives. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 97-17-37. Burglary; with explosives.
 

Any person, who, with intent to commit crime, breaks and enters, either by day or by night, any building, whether inhabited or not, and opens or attempts to open any vault, safe or other secure place by the use of nitroglycerine, dynamite, gunpowder or any other explosive, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives. 
 

Any person duly convicted of burglary with explosives shall be punished by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of not less than five (5) years nor more than forty (40) years. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1930, §§ 819, 820; 1942, §§ 2045, 2046; Laws, 1926, ch. 176; Laws, 1940, ch. 240.