STATE v. ESCALANTE

Nos. 16689, 16720 and 16744.

458 N.W.2d 787 (1990)

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Jose I. ESCALANTE, Craig A. Neiger and Michael R. Larsen, Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided July 11, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger A. Tellinghuisen, Atty. Gen., Diane Best, Asst. Atty. Gen., Pierre, for plaintiff and appellee.

David R. Wurm, Office of Public Defender, Rapid City, for defendants and appellants.


WUEST, Chief Justice.

This is a consolidated appeal of the convictions of three defendants as DWI1 habitual offenders. We affirm.

FACTS

Each of the defendants was convicted of DWI and each had prior DWI convictions in his record. Accordingly, state sought to enhance the punishment for each defendant's most recent DWI by alleging his prior convictions in a Part II information filed under SDCL 32-23-4.2.

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