If any person summoned to appear as a grand juror or petit juror fails, refuses, or neglects to appear, or willfully fails to complete and return the jury questionnaire, or if having appeared, fails, without good case, to attend as required by the court, such person is guilty of contempt of the court and may be fined by the court in any sum not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars. If any person, when a second order of attachment is issued, neglects or refuses to appear, such person may be fined as above provided and imprisoned by the court not longer than ten days in the county jail.
S.D. Codified Laws § 16-13-45
Failure to appear for jury duty or return jury questionnaire as contempt of court--Penalty
Source: SL 1867-8, ch 19, § 15; PolC 1877, ch 19, § 15; CL 1887, § 445E; RPolC 1903, § 723; RC 1919, § 5299; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 32.1020; SL 2013, ch 100, § 1.
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