Case Name: United States v. Faw
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1808-07
Citations: 1 Cranch 487
Docket Number: 
Parties: United States v. Faw.
Judges: Dückett, J,, absent.
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 1
Pages: 487–488

Head Matter:
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,

Opinion:
Which the Court refused.
Dückett, J,, absent.
The jury found the defendant not guilty.