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South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 23A - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Chapter 3 - (RULE 4.1) ARREST
Section 23A-3-4 - Advice as to authority and cause of arrest without warrant

S.D. Codified Laws § 23A-3-4

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Section 23A-3-4 - Advice as to authority and cause of arrest without warrant

When arresting a person without a warrant, the person making the arrest must inform the person to be arrested of his authority and the cause of the arrest, and require him to submit, except when the person to be arrested is engaged in the actual commission of an offense or when he is arrested on pursuit immediately after its commission.

SDCL 23A-3-4

SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, §§ 34.1608, 34.1609; SDCL, §§ 23-22-9, 23-22-15; SL 1978, ch 178, § 17.