State v. Boughner
State v. Boughner
Opinion of the Court
This case comes before us on rehearing, the opinion being reported in 59 N. W. 736, 5 S. D. 461. At the conclusion of the evidence for the state, which it was claimed tended to prove several distinct sales, the plaintiff in error moved the court to compel the state to elect upon which sale it would rely for a conviction. The motion was denied, and the counsel for the plaintiff in error duly excepted. In our opinion we arrived at the conclusion, from the evidence assumed to be before us, that there was really but one sale proven, upon which the jury would have been warranted in finding the defendant guilty, and that this court would presume that it was for such a sale the jury found the defendant guilty, and therofore no reversible error was committed by the court in denying the motion. In the petition for a rehearing our attention was called to an amended abstract that had been inadvertantly overlooked in preparing the opinion, and which sup
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- Where, for the purpose of proving the charge in an indictment charging the defendant with committing the offense of selling intoxicating liquors contrary to the statute, evidence is introduced tending to prove the commission of two or more separate and distinct offenses, it is the duty of the court, before the defendant is put upon his defense, if requested so to do, to require the prosecution to elect upon which transaction the state will rely for a conviction. State v. Valentine (S. D.) 63 N. W. 541, followed. (Syllabus by the Court.