Rhode Island General Laws
R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-8-4 (2026)
Breaking and entering business place, public building, or ship with felonious intent
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Every person who shall break and enter any bank, shop, office or warehouse, not adjoining to or occupied as a dwelling house, any meeting house, church, chapel, courthouse, town house, college, academy, schoolhouse, library or other building erected for public use or occupied for any public purpose, or any ship or vessel, with intent to commit murder, sexual assault, robbery or larceny, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten (10) years.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 17
cases, 1970–2009 · leading case: State v. Austin, 462 A.2d 359 (R.I. 1983).
State v. Austin, 462 A.2d 359 (R.I. 1983). “1956 (1969 Reenactment) § 11-8-4. His motion for a new trial was denied, and he is now before us on appeal and assigns as error certain evidentiary and other rulings.”
United States v. Anthony Fiore, 983 F.2d 1 (1st Cir. 1992). “5 Appellant’s thesis runs along the following lines: the offense was committed in Rhode Island; under R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-8-4 (1991), 6 the offense did not have as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of force against the person of another as contemplated by U.”
State v. LaCroix, 911 A.2d 674 (R.I. 2006). “LaCroix (defendant), was tried and convicted in Superior Court of breaking and entering a building at night with the intent to commit larceny therein, in violation of G.L.1956 § 11-8-4. The defendant appeals his conviction, alleging that the trial justice violated his…”
State v. Jeremiah, 546 A.2d 183 (R.I. 1988). “By contrast, §§ 11-8-4 and 11-8-5, which also relate to breaking and entering offenses, include felonious or criminal intent as an element of those offenses.”
United States v. Rose, 104 F.3d 1408 (1st Cir. 1997). “Verrill was convicted of breaking and entering and breaking and entering with intent to commit larceny in violation of R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-8-4. On very similar facts, this court has held that violation of that statute constitutes a crime of violence for career offender purposes.”
United States v. Henry Peterson, 233 F.3d 101 (1st Cir. 2000). “1992) (R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-8-4). The reason these offenses were analyzed under the "otherwise” clause rather than as burglaries traces back to a slight discrepancy between U.”
State v. Murphy, 271 A.2d 310 (R.I. 1970). “” The indictment in the case at bar charges defendant with the commission of an offense in violation of §11-8-4 (1969 Reenactment), which, in pertinent part, reads as follows: *743 “Every person who shall break and enter any bank, shop, office or warehouse, not adjoining to or…”
State v. DeMasi, 419 A.2d 285 (R.I. 1980). “1956 (1969 Reenactment) § 11-8-4, and with stealing goods valued in excess of $500, in violation of G.”
Nardone v. Mullen, 322 A.2d 27 (R.I. 1974). “1956 (1969 Reenactment) §11-8-4. After the trial justice satisfied himself that the defendant was informed and aware of the nature of that plea and its effect as a waiver .”
United States v. Schofield, 114 F.3d 350 (1st Cir. 1997). “1 We are left to determine whether one or more of Schofield’s breaking and entering convictions can serve as a predicate offense, *352 bringing to three the total number of “violent felonies.”
State v. Palmigiano, 306 A.2d 830 (R.I. 1973). “1956 (1969 Reenactment) §11-8-4. The case was tried to a justice of the Superior Court sitting with a jury, which found the defendant guilty as charged.”
State v. Riely, 523 A.2d 1225 (R.I. 1987). “1983), this court construed § 11-8-4, a statute that deals with the breaking and entering into any bank, shop, office, or warehouse.”
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