An attorney who receives the money or property of his client in the course of his professional business, and refuses to pay or deliver it in a reasonable time after demand, is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.
S.D. Codified Laws § 16-18-23
Refusal by attorney to pay money to client as misdemeanor
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case In Re the Discipline of Rude (1974)
Most recently applied in Matter of Discipline of Tidball (July 1993)
Source: PolC 1877, ch 18, § 17; CL 1887, § 478; RPolC 1903, § 705; RC 1919, § 5268; SDC 1939, § 13.1257; SL 1979, ch 150, § 18.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.