South Dakota Statutes

§ 22-16-2 — Corpus delicti--Proof beyond reasonable doubt.

South Dakota·Title 22 CRIMES·Ch. 22-15 HOMICIDE AND SUICIDE
No person may be convicted of murder or manslaughter, or of aiding suicide, unless the death of the person alleged to have been killed, and the fact of the killing by the accused are each established as independent facts beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Legislative History

SDC 1939, § 13.2006; SL 2005, ch 120, § 152.

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