Officers may break doors, when.

105.240. Every officer may break open doors and enclosuresto execute a warrant or other process for the arrest of anyperson, or to levy an execution, or execute an order for thedelivery of personal property, if, upon public demand and anannouncement of his official character, they be not opened.

(RSMo 1939 § 12824)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 11200; 1919 § 9173; 1909 § 10202