STATE v. RHINES

No. 18268.

548 N.W.2d 415 (1996)

1996 SD 55

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Charles Russell RHINES, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided May 15, 1996.

Rehearing Denied June 28, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Barnett, Attorney General, Grant Gormley, Craig M. Eichstadt, and Sherri Sundem Wald, and Gary Campbell, Assistant Attorneys. General, Pierre, for plaintiff and appellee.

Michael Stonefield, Pennington County Public Defender's Office, Joseph M. Butler of Bangs, McCullen, Butler, Foye & Simmons, and Wayne F. Gilbert of Johnson Huffman, Rapid City, for defendant and appellant.


MILLER, Chief Justice.

[¶ 1] From the latter part of 1991 through February 1992, Charles Russell Rhines worked at the Dig `Em Donut Shop on West Main Street in Rapid City, South Dakota. In February 1992 Rhines was terminated from this job.

[¶ 2] On March 8, 1992, the body of Donnivan Schaeffer, an employee of Dig `Ern Donuts, was found in the storeroom of the donut shop on West Main Street. Schaeffer's hands were bound, and he had been repeatedly...

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