People v. Black

Defendants were charged with the crime of “burglary with explosives” under an information of three counts. The designated crime is thus defined and denounced: “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, saie or other secure place by use of nitroglycerine, dynamite, gunpowder or any other explosive, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives” (Pen. Code, see. 464). The first count of the information charges an entry into a store, building, or room of one…