Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 17. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Chapter 4. ARREST OF PERSONS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

17-4-3. Right of forcible entry into private dwellings pursuant to execution of arrest warrant.

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In order to arrest under a warrant charging a crime, the officer may break open the door of any house where the offender is concealed.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 4610; Code 1868, § 4632; Code 1873, § 4729; Code 1882, § 4729; Penal Code 1895, § 894; Penal Code 1910, § 915; Code 1933, § 27-205.

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