NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 653

HOUSE BILL 724

 

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE MAXIMUM PUNISHMENT FOR SAFECRACKING AND SAFE ROBBERY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Any person who shall by the use of explosives, drills, or other tools unlawfully force open or attempt to force open or "pick" the combination of a safe or vault used for storing money or other valuables, shall, upon conviction thereof, receive a sentence, in the discretion of the trial judge, of from ten years to life imprisonment in the State penitentiary.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of June, 1961.