Is a person who enters a building with the intent of committing larceny or any felony guilty of burglary?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. D.J. (In re D.J.), B252531 (Cal. App. 2014):
A person who enters any building with the intent to commit larceny or any felony is guilty of burglary. (Pen. Code, 459; People v. Yarbrough (2012) 54 Cal.4th 889, 892.) Burglary of an inhabited dwelling (residential burglary) is burglary of the first degree. (Pen. Code, 460, subd. (a).)
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