Burglary Flashcards
What is Artifice?
BURGLARY
Artifice or trickery involves being cunning, skilled or artful to gain entry to a premises.
This form of entry still has an absence of authority regardless of the fact the owner let them in.
The moment they enter with that intent Burglary is complete.
What is required for burglary to have been committed?
Entry without authority or remains without authority
When is entry complete?
Entry is complete as soon as any part of the person’s body or instrument used by the person is within the building or ship
With intent to commit an imprisonable offence in the building or ship.
What makes burglary aggravated?
Burglary can be aggravated when the person committing the burglary has a weapon with him or her or uses anything as a weapon, before or during the offence, while still on or in the building or ship.
