People v. Davis

“We agree to all the generalities about not supplying criminal laws with what they omit, but there is no canon against using common sense in construing laws as saying what they obviously mean.”

—Mr. Justice Holmes in Roschen v. Ward (1929), 279 U.S. 337, 339, 73 L. Ed. 722, 728, 49 S. Ct. 336.

The central issue to this appeal: what constitutes burglary in Illinois?

But first, some facts.

An information against Mr. Davis was filed charging him with the burglary of Consolidated Construction Co. in Champaign in that he knowingly and without authority “enter[ed] into part of” the building where its…