Section 13A-12-55
Duty of officer to break into and enter house.
The officer, in executing said warrant, shall break into and enter such house, room or part of a house, upon the refusal of the proprietor or any occupant thereof to open the same, and seize all gambling instruments and bring such instruments, together with all gambling devices and the parties that are found there, before the court which issued the warrant.
(Acts 1909, No. 193, p. 183; Code 1923, §4287; Code 1940, T. 14, §299; Code 1975, §13-7-96.)