This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol10 Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Wills, Administration", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
If a servant having charge of a house enters one of its rooms which he is not permitted to enter and steals goods therein, he is guilty of burglary.195
So a domestic servant having charge of a house, conspiring with others who are not servants, to enter the house and steal goods therein, is guilty of burglary though such act committed by the servant alone would not be burglary.196
The breaking into a building with intent to steal money from a safe therein, has been held to be burglary although the safe contained no money and was not used for keeping money in at any time.197
 
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