Every person who, being in the dwelling house of another, shall commit a crime, and shall break any outer door, or any other part of said house, to get out of the same, shall be guilty of burglary, and be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than ten years.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 4(12); 1857, ch. 64, art. 46; 1871, § 2523; 1880, § 2739; 1892, § 992; 1906, § 1069; Hemingway's 1917, § 797; 1930, § 813; 1942, § 2039.
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