Every person who practices any fraud or deceit, or knowingly makes or exhibits any false statement, representation, token, or writing, to any witness or person about to be called as a witness, upon any trial, proceeding, inquiry, or investigation authorized by law, with intent to affect the testimony of such witness, is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.
S.D. Codified Laws § 19-5-16
Fraud or deceit to affect testimony of witness as misdemeanor
Source: PenC 1877, § 167; CL 1887, § 6367; RPenC 1903, § 173; RC 1919, § 3761; SDC 1939, § 13.1247; SL 1979, ch 150, § 23.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.