Commonwealth v. Goodman

Groff, P. J.,

In this case the defendants have filed a demurrer to the indictment, and assigned as the reason why such demurrer should be sustained “that the necessary elements of forcible entry are not set forth therein.”

The Act of March 31,1860, P. L. 382, Sec. 21, provides that:

“If any person shall with violence and a strong hand, enter upon or into any lands or buildings, either by breaking open doors, windows or other parts of a house, or by any kind of violence or other circumstances of terror, or if any person after entering peaceably, shall turn out by force or by threats, or menacing…