AL · jury_instructions
Ala. Pattern Jury Instr. (Criminal) 13A-11-153(4)
Breaking or Entering into Any Animal or Crop Facility
Breaking and Entering into Any Animal or Crop Facility
The defendant is charged with breaking and entering into any animal or crop
facility.
A person commits the crime of breaking and entering into any animal or crop facility
if he/she breaks and enters into any animal or crop facility with the intent to destroy, alter,
duplicate, or obtain unauthorized possession of records, data, materials, equipment,
animals, or crops.
To convict, the State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt each of the following
elements:
(1) The defendant broke and entered into any animal or crop facility (name);
(2) The defendant did so with the intent to destroy, alter, duplicate, or obtain
unauthorized possession of records, data, materials, equipment, animals,
or crops; (AND)
(3) The loss was [read as appropriate]: ($250 or more/under $250).
An animal or crop facility is any facility engaging in scientific research, education,
or agricultural production of or involving the use of animals or crops including any
organization with the primary purpose of representing livestock or crop production or
processing; any organization with a primary purpose of promoting or marketing livestock
or crops; any organization with a primary purpose of promoting or marketing livestock or
crop products or materials; any person licensed to practice veterinary medicine; any
person licensed to apply chemical applications not limited to pesticides, insecticides,
rodenticides, or herbicides; any organization with a primary purpose of representing any
of the above; the owner, operator, and employees of any animal or crop facility; and any
vehicle, building, greenhouse, structure, laboratory, pasture, field, paddock, pond,
impoundment, or premises where animals or crops are located. [13A-11-152(2)]
An animal is every living creature, domestic or wild, with the exception of man and
animals used for illegal gaming purposes. [13A-11-152(1)]
Crops are any shrub, vine, tree, seedling, shoot , slip, or other plant undergoing
experimentation or otherwise capable of producing food, fiber, lawful or legal medicines,
nursery stock, floral products, or aesthetic beauty. [13A-11-152(4)]
A person is a human being, and where appropriate, a public or private corporation,
an unincorporated corporation, a partnership, a government or a governmental
instrumentality, or a private organization, association, coalition, federation, and its officers
or spokespersons. [13A-11-152(5)]
A person acts intentionally with respect to a result or to conduct described by a
statute defining an offense, when his/her purpose is to cause that result or to engage in
that conduct. [13A-2-2(1)]
If you find from the evidence that the State has proved beyond a reasonable doubt
each of the elements of breaking and entering into any animal or crop facility, then you
shall find the defendant guilty of breaking and entering into any animal or crop facility.
If you find that the State has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt any one
or more of the elements of breaking and entering into any animal or crop facility, then you
cannot find the defendant guilty of breaking and entering into any animal or crop facility.
[If lesser-included offenses are included, the Court should instruct on those
offenses at this point.]
History
[Approved 7-22-17.]
Provenance
- Source
- judicial.alabama.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- 2026-08-20
- Content hash
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