The attorney general shall have authority to sign, file, and present any and all complaints, informations, presentments, indictments, subpoenas, affidavits, motions, process, and papers of any kind which the state's attorney might do in any criminal proceeding, and to appear before all magistrates, grand juries, courts, commissions, or tribunals in any criminal proceeding in the state, the same as the state's attorney might do, or in conjunction with said state's attorney.
S.D. Codified Laws § 23-3-4
Papers filed and appearances by attorney general
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Discipline of Ravnsborg (2024)
Most recently applied in Discipline of Ravnsborg (September 2024)
Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 34.0403.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.