22-16-1. Homicide defined.
Homicide is the killing of one human being, including an unborn child, by another. Homicide is either:
(1)Murder;
(2)Manslaughter;
(3)Excusable homicide;
(4)Justifiable homicide; or
(5)Vehicular homicide.
Source: SDC 1939, §13.2001; SL 1985, ch 176; SL 1995, ch 122, §10; SL 2005, ch 120, §150.