S.D. Codified Laws § 22-5-1

Current through the 2024 Legislative Session

Section 22-5-1 - Conduct forced or under threat of force

No person may be convicted of a crime based upon conduct in which that person engaged because of the use or threatened use of unlawful force upon himself, herself, or another person, which force or threatened use of force a reasonable person in that situation would have been lawfully unable to resist.

SDCL 22-5-1

SDC 1939, § 13.0501; SL 1976, ch 158, § 5-1; SL 1977, ch 189, § 14; SL 1978, ch 158, § 3; SL 2005, ch 120, §379.