Asked in Civil Rights and Criminal Law for Texas

Q: If you live in a house with a friend and you break in to get your stuff is it a felony

To get your medicine in your belonging

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1 Lawyer Answer

A: It is not a crime to break in to your own habitation. Burglary, the crime of breaking into a habitation, has to have along with the breaking an entry with intent to commit theft or another felony. Since the habitation was your own dwelling, and since there was no intent to commit theft or another felony, no offense was committed. Good luck.

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