No act or omission may be deemed criminal or punishable except as prescribed or authorized by this title or by some other statute of this state.
S.D. Codified Laws § 22-1-8
Act not deemed criminal unless prohibited by statute
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case State v. Klaudt (2009)
Most recently applied in State v. Thoman (February 2021)
Source: SDC 1939, § 13.0103; SL 2005, ch 120, § 362.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.