People v. McNeal

The defendant, Eddie McNeal, was convicted of burglary of the second degree and sentenced to state’s prison. The crime as charged in the information was that he “. . . did wilfully and unlawfully enter a building, to wit: a tool shed on the property of Frank Cozzi, located near Dos Palos, with the intent to commit theft thereon. ’ ’

The corpus delicti was clearly proved. Mr. Cozzi’s tool shed, an enclosed building but not an inhabited dwelling, was entered on November 29, 1961, in the nighttime through a hole in one corner of the structure, and a number of tools, including an electric drill…