18-703 — ILLEGAL ARRESTS AND SEIZURES


                                  TITLE  18
                            CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
                                  CHAPTER 7
                       ARRESTS AND SEIZURES OF PERSONS
                       OR PROPERTY -- SPECIAL OFFICERS
    18-703.  ILLEGAL ARRESTS AND SEIZURES. Every public officer, or person
pretending to be a public officer, who, under the pretense or color of any
process or other legal authority, arrests any person or detains him against
his will, or seizes or levies upon any property, or dispossesses any one of
any lands or tenements, without a regular process or other lawful authority
therefor, is guilty of a misdemeanor.