2021 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 21 - Judicial Remedies
Chapter 27 - Habeas Corpus
Section 21-27-28 - Second imprisonment on same cause prohibited after discharge on writ--Circumstances justifying second imprisonment.

21-27-28. Second imprisonment on same cause prohibited after discharge on writ--Circumstances justifying second imprisonment.

No person who has been discharged by order of a court or judge upon a writ of habeas corpus shall be again imprisoned, restrained, or kept in custody for the same cause, unless he be afterward prosecuted for the same offense; nor unless by the legal order or process of the court wherein he is bound by recognizance to appear. The following shall not be deemed to be the same cause:

(1)If after a discharge for a defect of proof, or on any material defect in the commitment in a criminal case, such person should be again arrested on sufficient proof, and committed by legal process for the same offense;

(2)If in a civil suit such person has been discharged for any illegality in the judgment or process, and is afterward imprisoned by legal process for the same cause of action;

(3)Generally, whenever the discharge has been ordered on account of the nonobservance of any of the forms required by law, such person may be a second time imprisoned, if the cause be legal, and the forms required by law observed.

Source: CCrimP 1877, §677; CL 1887, §7845; RCCrimP 1903, §777; RC 1919, §4983; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, §37.5506.

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