People v. Bowen and Rouse
Michigan Court of Appeals
158 N.W.2d 794 (1968)
Bowen, an acquaintance and sometime handyman of an elderly woman who had been in her home many times before, and his companion Rouse entered her home late at night with her permission while two female companions spoke with her elsewhere in the house; a suspicious neighbor called police, who found the woman's bedroom in disarray and later found her rings and necklace near where the defendants had been sitting, leading to charges of larceny in a building that the trial judge reduced to attempted larceny for the jury's consideration.
Whether, in Michigan, a defendant may be found guilty of attempt if he has performed an unambiguous and overt act directly related towards the commission of the intended offense, and whether entering a house by itself constitutes that overt act.