State v. Satter

WOLLMAN, Justice.

Defendant was found guilty by a jury of two counts of murder. He appeals from the judgment of conviction. We affirm.

Defendant was charged under the provisions of SDCL 22-16-7 with killing two men, Jerry Wayne Bowling and Kent Harold Engle. That statute provides:

“Homicide is murder when perpetrated by any act imminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual.”

On April 1,1973, the sheriff of Codington County received an anonymous phone call advising him…