STATE v. GERDES

No. 11899.

252 N.W.2d 335 (1977)

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Reid GERDES, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided April 15, 1977.

Rehearing Denied May 18, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Guhin, Asst. Atty. Gen., for plaintiff and respondent; William J. Janklow, Atty. Gen., Pierre, on brief.

Steven W. Sanford, of Braithwaite & Cadwell, Sioux Falls, for defendant and appellant.


DUNN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction in the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial Circuit of being in "control of [a] vehicle while * * * [t]here is 0.10 per cent or more by weight of alcohol in his blood." SDCL 32-23-1(1). There was no transcript ordered, and the sole grounds for this appeal is the constitutionality of the statute which permits the prosecutor to proceed under subsection (1) set out above or subsection (2) of SDCL 32-23-1 which...

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