An arrest is the taking of a person into custody so that he may be held to answer for the alleged commission of a public offense.
S.D. Codified Laws § 23A-3-1
Definition of arrest
Known as the Uniform Act
The act spans §§ 23–23 (38 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case State v. Karp (1995)
Most recently applied in State v. Lee (May 2017)
Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 34.1601; SDCL, § 23-22-1; SL 1978, ch 178, § 14.
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.