Lack of intent to injure not reducing degree of crime.

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22-16-8. Lack of intent to injure not reducing degree of crime.

Homicide perpetrated by an act imminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved mind, without regard for human life, is not the less murder because there was no actual intent to injure others.

Source: SDC 1939, §13.2007 (4); SL 2005, ch 120, §157.


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