STATE v. JOHNSON

No. 10153.

139 N.W.2d 232 (1965)

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Darrell D. JOHNSON, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

December 31, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roubideaux, Poches & Reade, Fort Pierre, for defendant and appellant.

Frank L. Farrar, Atty. Gen., Walter Weygint, Asst. Atty. Gen., Pierre, Robert L. Varilek, Deputy State's Atty., Pennington County, South Dakota, Rapid City, for plaintiff and respondent.


RENTTO, Judge.

The lifeless body of William Sykes, an Australian who was visiting in the area, was discovered on a graveled road just north of the Interstate Highway near where it junctures with the West Boulevard Interchange serving Rapid City, South Dakota, about 6:30 a. m. on May 21, 1963. An information was filed naming the defendant, then residing at Sturgis, South Dakota, as being responsible for this death. Count I charged him with premeditated murder by strangulation...

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