STATE v. KASEMAN

No. 12282.

273 N.W.2d 716 (1978)

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Steven Alexander KASEMAN, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided December 22, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marc Tobias, Asst. Atty. Gen., Pierre, for plaintiff and respondent; William J. Janklow, Atty. Gen. and Harry W. Christianson, and Thomas Welk, Asst. Attys. Gen., Pierre, on brief.

Richard Hurd, Sioux Falls, for defendant and appellant; Thomas P. Tonner and John L. Maynes of Maynes, Tonner, Maynes & Tobin, Aberdeen, on brief.


DUNN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction of kidnapping in the Third Judicial Circuit. Defendant was found guilty by a jury on May 15, 1977, and was sentenced to a term of life in the state penitentiary. We affirm.

On October 6, 1976, Mrs. Mary Tschirley, a 78-year-old Roscoe, South Dakota woman, visited her daughter in Aberdeen, and that evening she had a telephone conversation with Ralph Pressler who...

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