2014 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 22 - CRIMES
Chapter 12A - Improprieties And Bribery In Public Office
§ 22-12A-12 Attempt to influence jurors, arbitrators, or referees--Felony.
22-12A-12. Attempt to influence jurors, arbitrators, or referees--Felony. Any person who attempts to influence a juror, or any person summoned or drawn as a juror, or chosen an arbitrator or appointed a referee, in respect to any verdict or decision in any cause or matter pending, or about to be brought before such person:
(1) By means of any communication, oral or written, had with such person, except in the regular course of proceedings upon the trial of the cause;
(2) By means of any book, paper, or instrument exhibited otherwise than in the regular course of proceedings upon the trial of the cause; or
(3) By publishing any statement, argument, or observation relating to the cause;
is guilty of a Class 6 felony.
Source: SDC 1939, § 13.1207; SDCL, § 16-15-10; SL 1976, ch 158, § 11-11; SDCL, § 22-11-16; SL 2005, ch 120, §§ 211, 217.
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