STATE v. TCHIDA

14185.

347 N.W.2d 338 (1984)

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Richard TCHIDA, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided April 18, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roxanne Giedd, Asst. Atty. Gen., Pierre, for plaintiff and appellee; Mark V. Meierhenry, Atty. Gen., Pierre, on brief.

David Alan Palmer of Strange, Strange & Palmer, Sioux Falls, for defendant and appellant.


FOSHEIM, Chief Justice.

Richard Tchida was convicted on two counts of grand theft for receiving stolen firearms1 and two counts of possession of a firearm by one with a prior violent crime conviction.2 He appeals. We reverse.

In December 1982 two pistols were unlawfully removed from the Schiltz Foods Company in Sisseton, South Dakota. Both firearms were retrieved from a cemetery by the local sheriff...

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