Commonwealth v. Reynolds
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment charging the defendant in the first count with an assault with a gun on Henry B. Woodman, with intent to kill; and in the second count, with a simple assault and battery.
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Indictment charging the defendant in the first count with an assault with a gun on Henry B. Woodman, with intent to kill; and in the second count, with a simple assault and battery. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Brigham, C. J., it appeared in evidence on the part of the government, that on the morning of April 21, 1875, Woodman, who was then a constable of the town of Medway, made a complaint before one Deans, a trial justice, against one McKenna for drunkenness, and that Woodman went directly from the office of the magistrate to the house of the defendant, stopping on the way to…
1Opinion of the CourtDryers, J.
The instructions of the presiding judge state substantially the propositions that an officer, who is provided with a warrant to arrest one charged with a misdemeanor, and who has information which leads him reasonably to believe that the person sought is within the dwelling-house of a third person, upon notice to such third person that he has a warrant against one who is in the house, and, upon demanding admission, such admission being refused, is entitled, for the purpose of serving his warrant, to make forcible entrance through the outer door of the house; and further, that the officer…
2Cited by27 opinions
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