Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court March 15, 1870 (Bassett v. Howorth)

Ames, J.

The warrant upon which this defendant was arrested was served by an officer to whom it was not directed. It *225was also served by an officer who has no legal authority to serve such warrants, even if it had been directed to him, except in a special and very limited class of cases; and even then it would be necessary, in order to render it strictly formal and regular, that it should