Grimes v. State

Hall, Justice.

The question made here is, whether an incomplete building, which carpenters are engaged in finishing, and where *763they have deposited their tools, protecting the building by closing the outer doors and fastening the windows with a canvas frame, which was broken, and entered, and their tools stolen and carried away therefrom, is such a place of business as burglary, under the code, §4386, may be committed in. The tools of these carpenters were certainly contained or stored” in the house where they were then carrying on their business. So the offence is charged in the indictment,…