STATE v. PROVOST

No. 12270.

266 N.W.2d 96 (1978)

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Purcell PROVOST, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided May 3, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leann Larson Finke, Asst. Atty. Gen., Pierre, for plaintiff and respondent; William J. Janklow, Atty. Gen., Pierre, on brief.

Richard A. Johnson of Willy, Pruitt, Matthews & Jorgensen, Sioux Falls, for defendant and appellant.


MORGAN, Justice.

The defendant appeals from his conviction of grand larceny and from his adjudication as an habitual offender. Defendant contends that he lacked the specific intent to commit larceny due to voluntary intoxication, and that the information filed against him was defective since it lacked an essential element of the crime. Regarding his habitual offender adjudication, it is asserted that various fingerprint exhibits should not have been admitted into...

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