CHAPTER 146

(HB 1161)

First degree robbery, crime elements revised.

         ENTITLED, An Act to  revise the elements of the crime of first degree robbery.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:

     Section  1.  That § 22-30-6 be amended to read as follows:

     22-30-6.   Robbery, if accomplished by the use of a dangerous weapon, or by the use of a physical object simulating a dangerous weapon, is robbery in the first degree. Robbery, if accomplished in any other manner, is robbery in the second degree.

     Signed March 15, 2007

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