The sheriff or his deputy may break and enter any house after a request to be permitted to enter such house and a refusal of such request, in order to arrest the person or to seize the goods of anyone in such house, provided, such sheriff or his deputy have process requiring him to arrest such person or seize such goods.
Sheriff may break into house in certain cases
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-39-110, under Title 15, Chapter 39.
S.C. Code Ann. § 15-39-110