Homicide committed with a design to effect death is not the less murder because the perpetrator was in a state of anger or voluntary intoxication at the time.
S.D. Codified Laws § 22-16-6
Anger or voluntary intoxication not reducing degree of crime
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case State v. Owen (2007)
Most recently applied in State v. Owen (February 2007)
Source: SDC 1939, § 13.2009.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.