Case ID: dc_1/html/0487-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

United States v. Faw.
    A constable having a warrant to arrest a man for assault and battery, has a right to break open the door of the offender’s dwelling-house to arrest him.
    IndictMent for not doing all in his power to prevent a riot, whereby a man was killed.
    
      
      Mr. Jones, for the United States,
    prayed the Court to instruct ’ the jury, that neither the constable nor the magistrate had a right to break open the door of the house inhabited by a man, to arrest him upon a warrant for an assault and battery,
   Which the Court refused.

Dückett, J,, absent.

The jury found the defendant not guilty.