Election at general election--Oath and bond--Licensed attorney required
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Little Thunder v. South Dakota (1975)
Most recently applied in Larson v. Krebs (June 2017)
Source: RPolC 1903, § 9271/2; RC 1919, § 5997; SDC 1939, § 12.1301; SL 1965, ch 27, § 1.
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.
A state's attorney shall be elected in each organized county of this state at each general election, who shall qualify by taking the oath of office and giving a bond as provided by law.
No person shall be eligible to the Office of State's Attorney who is not duly licensed to practice as an attorney and counselor at law by the Supreme Court of this state.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.