As used in this chapter, any intentional use of force or violence by three or more persons, acting together and without authority of law, to cause any injury to any person or any damage to property is riot. A violation of this section is a Class 4 felony.
S.D. Codified Laws § 22-10-1
Riot--Violation as felony
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case State v. Bad Heart Bull (1977)
Most recently applied in TERRY v. DRUMMOND (July 2025)
Source: SDC 1939, § 13.1402; SL 1976, ch 158, § 10-1; SL 2005, ch 120, § 345; SL 2020, ch 78, § 1.
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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.