STATE v. NGUYEN

No. 19684.

563 N.W.2d 120 (1997)

1997 SD 47

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Tho Ngoc NGUYEN, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided April 30, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Barnett, Attorney General, Timothy Bartlett, Assistant Attorney General, Pierre, for Plaintiff and Appellee.

Nichole Ann Carper, Minnehaha County Public Defender, Sioux Falls, for Defendant and Appellant.


GILBERTSON, Justice.

[¶ 1.] Tho Nguyen (Nguyen) appeals judgment and sentencing from his conviction of vehicular homicide. We affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

[¶ 2.] On December 12, 1995, at approximately 5:30 a.m., two vehicles hit head-on near an intersection on the edge of Sioux Falls. The driver of one car, Laurence Metz, was pronounced dead on arrival at a local hospital. The driver of the other vehicle, Nguyen, was taken to the hospital...

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