2006 South Dakota Code - 22-16-7 — Homicide as murder in the second degree.

     22-16-7.   Homicide as murder in the second degree. Homicide is murder in the second degree if perpetrated by any act imminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved mind, without regard for human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular person, including an unborn child.

Source: SDC 1939, § 13.2007 (2); SL 1980, ch 173, § 10; SL 2005, ch 120, § 156.

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