To make an arrest an officer or private person, after notice of his office and object, if admittance is refused, may break open a window or outer or inner door of any dwelling or house in which he has reason to believe the offender may be found.
Miss. Code Ann. § 99-3-11
Arresting officer or person may break into house
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Payton v. New York (1980)
Most recently applied in Cooper v. State (October 2013)
Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 277; 1871, § 2777; 1880, § 3027; 1892, § 1376; 1906, § 1448; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1205; 1930, § 1228; 1942, § 2471.
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