Harrell v. Holt

Hall, Justice.

Forcible entry is the violently taking possession of lands and tenements with menaces, force and arms, and without authority of lav/ (Code, §4524); and forcible detainer is the violently keeping possession of the same, in the same manner, and by the employment of the same means (Id., §4525), and these offpnses are punishable, on conviction upon indictment. Id., §4526. A more summary and additional remedy is given the party thus forcibly evicted or kept out of possession, by a warrant issued and tried before justices of the peace and a jury summoned and empanelled for the purpose…