FORCIBLE ENTRY

An offense against the public peace, or private wrong, committed by violently taking po e ion of lands and tenements with menaces, force, and arms, against the will of those entitled to the po e ion, and without the authority of law. 4 BI. Comm. 148; 4. Steph. Comm. 280; Code. Ga. 1882, § 4524. Every person is, guilty of forcible entry who either (1) by breaking open doors, windows, or other parts of a house, or by any tlnd of violence or circumstance of terror, [s. 515]