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STATE v. COWELL

No. 12564.

288 N.W.2d 322 (1980)

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. James COWELL, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided February 13, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael V. Black, Asst. Atty. Gen., Pierre, for plaintiff and respondent; Mark V. Meierhenry, Atty. Gen., Pierre, on brief.

L. Anthony Weisensee, John N. Gridley, III, Sioux Falls, for defendant and appellant.

FOSHEIM, Justice.

The defendant brings this appeal from a judgment of conviction on a charge of murder. We affirm.

On August 8, 1977, the defendant shot and killed James Clark and then forced two other men to help him dispose of the body. On September 15, 1977, Agents Donald Gromer and Jerry Baum from the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation interviewed the defendant at the Woodbury County, Iowa, jail where the defendant was being held on an unrelated...

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