Supreme Court of Georgia July 15, 1872 (Wood v. State)

McCay, Judge.

The crime of burglary consists in breaking, etc., with intent to commit a felony. The intent is a material and necessary part of the crime. Breaking into a house is a mertrespass. Stealing from a house is larceny from the house. But to make the offense of burglary there must be a breaking with intent to cofnmit a felony, (now, or larceny.